1955-1956 - Del Webb Sun Cities Museum

Vol. 9, No. I PHOENIX, ARIZONA Eight Pages

N E W LAS VEGAS HOSTELRY just completed by the Webb Company is shown in views above and below. Entry to motel-type inn is shown in upper photo. Lower photo is a view from second-floor balcony at rear of the inn. Note the large parking area handy to guest rooms.

Bagdad Hotel Is Completed At Las Vegas The new Bagdad hotel, a motel-type inn with accommodations for more than 200 guests, has been completed by the Del E. Webb Construction Co. at Las Vegas, Nev., for the Flamingo Hotel System.

It is located at 2211 South Fifth St. in the Nevada city, on the busy Los Angeles-Las Vegas highway in an area known as "The Strip" because of glittering, multi-million dollar hotels and gambling casinos.

The Bagdad Inn has comfortable, tastefully-furnished rooms, a modern restaurant with both counter and table service, spacious lobby equipped with television, large tiled swimming pool with cabana and sun deck, parking area handy to its rooms, and telephone service through a switchboard to each room.

Portions of the large interior patio have been landscaped.

With Frank E. Warren serving as job superintendent and Howard Hill as carpentry foreman for the Webb Company, the inn was constructed in 57 working days, with engineers and surveyors being on the ground to begin work within hours after the construction contract was signed. H. E. Boice, chief of operations at the Phoenix Main Office, and Kim Bannister of Main Office operations, directed the project. The two-story structure is of mas

onry construction, with refrigerated cooling for summer and central heating from a 1,000,000 BTU boiler for winter. Cooling and heating may be controlled in each room to the guest's liking. The inn has a swimming pool 76 feet long and 25 feet wide, with adjacent cabana and rest room and powder room. A feature of the new inn is a 55-

foot high sign, "BAGDAD", which can be seen for miles when lighted at night.

THE WEBB SPINNER January, 1955

Bagdad Inn At Las Vegas Newest In Flamingo Hotel System

AIR V I E W of Bagdad Inn is shown in

center of top photo. It is located on

what is known as "The Strip", that part

of the busy Los Angeles-Las Vegas

highway at entrance to the Nevada

city. Center photo is a view of the

lobby adjacent to the inn's office and

the restaurant. Lower photo shows the

76-foot swimming and wading pool,

which has in center of the shallow end

a ceramic tile island deck for bathing.

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Swimming Facilities,

Convenient Parking,

Cafe Service

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T W O V I E WS of Bagdad Inn guest

rooms fronting on enclosed court con

taining modern swimming pool and

large parking area. Upper view shows

view from one corner of the second-

floor balcony. Lower view, made from

cabana adjacent to plunge, shows sec

tion of lower floor rooms and some of

the landscaping in the court. Bagdad

also has modern restaurant which will

accommodate more than 60 diners.

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T H E M E N who built the Bagdad for

the W e b b Company are pictured at

left. They are, from left: Johnny Meek

er, job office manager; F. E. Warren,

job superintendent; Howard Hill, car

pentry foreman; H. E. Boice, chief of

job operations from the Phoenix Main

Office, and Kim Bannister, liaison op

erations man between the Main Office

and the job.

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Frivolity, Food And Refreshments Highlight Yule S

I D E L E. W E B B CONST

LOS A N G E L E S C R E W lined up like this in front of W e b b Company office there for the traditional Christmas picture. S ire front, Alice Stears, Enola Owens, Martha Little, Jean Barens and Maxine Bean and, on the sidewalk, Dale Griffith, Cliff Dei Fahey, Ed Smith, Bob Johnson, Del E. Webb, Ed Davies, George Shaw, Ralph Wanless, Jack McPhee, Gus Anderson, Nell I Langell and Bill Keefe. President Del W e b b joined the Los Angeles staff for their party and Gen. Mgr. L. C. Jacobson celebra

C H O W H O U N D S in the food lineup at the Phoenix party included this quartet, Bill Reed, Bernis Dobbs, Owen Childress and A. C. (Pop) Jacobson.

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NOBODY W E N T H U N G R Y af the Yule parties, and the group pictured above diving in as the dinner bell sounded at Los Angeles, includes Martha Little facing camera, Enola Owens, who is behind Del Webb, Jean Barens, Alice and Maxine Bean. And there were second helpings for all who

S+ears desired them.


Refreshments At Party Were Light, Sparkling And Effervescent

C H A M P A G N E LUNCHEONS were given just before Christmas by the management for all employes at Phoenix and Los Angeles offices of the Webb Company. Photo panel above shows (at At right, Gen. Mgr. L. Becker chat with Mrs. M

left) Marie Miller and Amy Jo Hafford serving champagne. C. Jacobson, Vice-Pres. J. R. Ashton and Secy.-Treas. R. A. Her while downing some of the bubbly stuff.

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RELAXING while they sip are these Main Office employees. ABOVE, from left, smiling Flo Olson (note the effect of that champagne); Doris DeHart, Pearl Richardson and genial Johnny Morton. BELOW, from left, Speedy Winston, A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Rosa Kort, Fred McDowell and Howard Boice.

PESKY THINGS, those champagne bottles. But Tom Hetherington, Jr., Webb Company legal counsel, has mastered the technique of popping the cork, and he served as official bottle opener for the party. Did a fine job, too, as the photo above indicates.

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A T LOS A N G E L E S OFFICE festivities, Mum's the word as Ed Davis fills glass of Martha Little (above, left

Yule cheer while Maxine Bean looks on. Jean Barens, nearest camera, was more intent at the moment on the food.

Around this busy table, clockwise, are Frank Langell, Bill Keefe, Maxine Bean (must have been calling for a second

Stears, Jean Barens and George Shaw.

, with a little

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helping), Alice

T H E G A N G at Los Angeles ties on the feed bag (above, left) in the office's ground-floor quarters. At table in foreground are

George Shaw, Bill Keefe, Maxine Bean, Alice Stears and Jean Barens. At next table are Enola Owens, R. H. Johnson and Ralph

Wanless. Seated at rear table are Jack McPhee, Bill Foeht, Gil Murray, Ed Smith, Gus Anderson, M. D. Stevens and Martha

Little. To left in rear are Chef Ed Davies, Dale Griffith with one hand on shoulder of Neil Drinkward. Beyond Drinkward are

Cliff Dean and Dick Hinton. A B O V E , R I G H T — Closeup of that corner table and its guests, clockwise, from left: M. F. Chambers,

Jack McPhee, Bill Foeht, Gil Murray, Ed Smith, Gus Anderson, M. D. Stevens and Martha Little. In foreground are Dick

Hinton and Enola Owens.

A F T E R - L U N C H C O N F A B busies Job Supt. Neil Drinkward and Del W e b b (above, left), while Cliff Dean and Dick Hinton rela

A B O V E R I G H T Probably the busiest man at the party was big Ed Davies, chief of operations at the Los Angeles office, who A B O V E i ' cheerfully poured the champagne and then turned in a great performance in the chef's role.


Volume 9 No. 1 Published by the

DEL E. W E B B CONSTRUCTION CO. Main Office, South 23rd Ave.

Phoenix, Arizona in the interests of the personnel of its various projects and branch offices

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Del E. Webb L. C. Jacobson R. A. Becker W. J. Miller

Amy Jo Hafford EDITOR

Jerry McLain REPORTERS

H. G. Winston, Phoenix A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix

John Morton, Phoenix Dale Griffith, Los Angeles CIRCULATION MANAGER

Kara Caroline (Casey) Newell Member

Society of Associated Industrial Editors

and International Council of

Industrial Editors Becker Assists College

Robert A. Becker, secretary-treasurer of the Webb Company, has been named a trustee of the Sun Angel Foundation, which was set up to purchase land for use by Arizona State College at Tempe. The college now is striving to have the state legislature rename it "Arizona State University". The foundation already has obtained 10 acres of land which will be sold to the college without profit in small parcels in future years, since Arizona law forbids the college obligating itself for more than one year.

Tom Lambie Turns Pro Tom Lambie, assistant to Bob Beck

er at the Main Office, is going to hit the professional golf trail. Now 32, Tom has played golf 24 years. He captained the Stanford University golf team, and became one of Arizona's best-known amateurs while working for the Webb Company. His most impressive showing was in the 1948 intercollegiate, when he was a semi-finalist. But in recent years he has made excellent showing on two occasions in the national public links tourneys. He plans to play the Braw-ley, Phoenix and Tucson Opens this winter, play in a few 1956 winter tournaments, and hopes some day to fill a pro job in Phoenix or on the West Coast.

Rosa Really Rolls 'Em Rosa Kort of the Main Office ac

counting department and hubby hied themselves up to Las Vegas during the recent holidays to visit son-in-law and daughter, Johnny and Dorothy Meeker. And 'tis said Rosa showed the gamblers a few neat tricks when it same to rolling the galloping dominoes and, what's more, came away with her winnings.

DIRECTORY r r i r * r r B

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Del E. Webb. President L. C. Jacobson, Executive Vice President and General Manager

R. A. Becker, Secretary T. F. Hetherington, Jr., Assistant Secretary

PHOENIX MAIN OFFICE 302 South 23rd Avenue, P.O. Box 4066. Phoenix, Arizona, Phone ALpine 8-7441

J. R. Ashton, Vice President and District Manager H. E. Boice, Chief of Operations W. J. Miller, Business Manager

Kim Bannister J- L- Morton F. S. Murray A. C. Jacobson, Sr. E. W. Flint Alice Murdoch T. E. Breen O. F. Childress Bobby Spaulding Lorraine 'Greager Geraldine Hampton

H. G. Winston P. G. Marks J. P. McLain Rosa M. Kort T. F. Lambie J. V. Parkhill G. G. Grantham Rose Romano Emma Marie Miller

Amy Jo Hafford Kara C. Newell Pearl S. Richardson Florence Olson T. P. Mulkern M. T. Rigg Doris DeHart L. O. Hoeft Evelyn Martin

LOS ANGELES DISTRICT OFFICE 5101 San Fernando Road W., Los Angeles 39, Phone CHapman 5-2616

R. H. Johnson, Vice President and District Manager E. T. Davies, Cbief of Operations D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager C. H. Dean R. C. Hinton Enola Owens Jean Barens E. H. Smith, Jr. Ralph Wanless F. O. Langell Maxine Bean G. A. Anderson F. W. Danielson M. F. Webb M. F. Chambers

Martha Little Alice Stewart

CENTRAL LOS ANGELES OFFICE 615 South Commonwealth Ave. Los Angeles. Calif. Phone DUnkirk 9-3631

G. A. Murray, Job Superintendent W. R. Foeht, Job Office Manager

SAN MANUEL, ARIZONA OFFICE 101 McNab Parkway San Manuel, Ariz. W. N. Davidson, Job Superintendent J. W. Ford, Job Engineer

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI OFFICE Webb-Winn Senter Construction Co. 2128 Brooklyn Kansas City 27, Mo. Phone BEnton 8781 W. A. Row, Job Superintendent F. P. Kuentz, Job Engineer R. L. Reeves, Job Office Manager

SAN DIEGO, CALIF., FIELD OFFICE P.O. Box 9396 4724 Hidalgo Ave. San Diego 17, Calif. Phone HUdson 8-5750 J. N. McPhee, Job Superintendent T. L. Rittenhouse, Job Engineer P. D. Clouthier. Job Office Manager W. C. Edmundson, Job Accountant

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF., OFFICE 9973 Santa Monica Blvd. Beverly Hills, Calif. J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot. Job Engineer C. F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager

TUCSON, ARIZONA OFFICE P.O. Box 7245. South Tucson Station Tucson, Arizona Phone 3-4002 E. J. Guinn, Job Office Manager

NORTHWEST PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE 19th Ave. and Thomas Rd. Phoenix, Arizona R. G. Fleming, Job Superintendent M. T. Rigg, Job Office Manager

LAS VEGAS, NEV., OFFICE c/o Bagdad Inn 2211 S. Fifth St. Las Vegas, Nev. F. E. Warren, Job Superintendent J. W. Meeker, Job Office Manager

NORTHEAST PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE Central Ave. and Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona F. L. McDowell. Job Superintendent M. T. Rigg, Job Office Manager

W e b b Paper Wins Award The San Manuel Miner, weekly

newspaper published by the Webb Company in the San Pedro Valley of Southeastern Arizona, was accorded third-place honors for general excellence among Arizona's fifty-four weekly newspapers in the 1954 competition of the Arizona Newspapers Association. The award was won in the Miner's first year of publication.

Sad Tidings Webb Company folks were saddened

this month by the death of Marion Albert Wadsworth, Casa Grande rancher and the father of Gerry Hampton of the Main Office operations department stenographic staff.

Mr. Wadsworth passed away Jan. 7 of injuries suffered Dec. 13 when his car overturned on his ranch west of Casa Grande.

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Birthdays John J. Fahey, Los Angeles Feb. 1 Tony P. Kohl, Phoenix Feb. 4 Jean Barens, Los Angeles Feb. 6 George Grantham, Phoenix Feb. 8 Morris DeConinck, Los Angeles Feb. 12

Harry Calahan, San Manuel ....Feb. 13 F. O. Langell, Los Angeles Feb. 13 Paul Marks, Phoenix Feb. 16 A. C. Jacobson, Sr., Phoenix ...Feb. 17 R. H. Johnson, Los Angeles Feb. 26

Vol. 9, No. 2 PHOENIX, ARIZONA Eight Pages

Sahara Oasis Is Erected By Webb Co,

The Sahara Oasis Motel, an addition to the swank Hotel Sahara in Las Vegas, Nev., which is comparable to a new 200-room hostelry, recently was completed by the Del E. W e b b Construction Co. Seven new two-story buildings com

prise the Sahara Oasis, and they include 192 living units, maid's rooms, linen and other storage rooms, and two equipment rooms. All buildings are joined by connecting lobbies and one of the buildings connects with the main Hotel Sahara structure, a sprawling affair, via a covered, all-weather passage. All rooms are air conditioned v|kh

individual room control. Exterior walls are of masonry construction, with interior wood frame. Buildings are completely insulated and have soundproofing between all rooms and corridors. The project was completed in five

months, with M. D. Stevens as job superintendent, T. L. Rittenhouse as job engineer and J. W . Meeker as office manager. The W e b b Company in November, 1952, completed the

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IN FABULOUS LAS VEGAS it took less than 18 months for the owners and operators of the swank Hotel Sahara built by the Webb Company to decide the 240-room, $5,000,000 hostelry was going to fall far short of their needs. So they ordered an addition, to be known as the Sahara Oasis Motel. Webb Company crews built the 192-room addition in five months. Partial view is shown above. Air photo below shows how the seven inter-connected two-story buildings (bottom of photo) adjoin the main hotel.

THE WEBB SPINNER February, 1955

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M A J O R L E A G U E BASEBALL is big news

in Kansas City these days, and the stad

ium-rebuilding project of the Del E. W e b b

Construction Co. and Winn-Senter Con

struction Co. is a topic of major interest.

As shown above, the Kansas City Star

recently devoted most of a page to the

story and an artist's conception of the

completed park packed with baseball fans.

AT LEFT—During an inspection visit to

the job site last month, Contractor Del

W e b b (right) is pictured with, from left,

Howard E. Boice of Phoenix, W e b b Com

pany chief of operations; James Neville,

project engineer representing the Public

Works Department of the City of Kansas

City, and Parke Carroll, business manager

of the new Kansas City Athletics.

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Stadium Project 'Pressure Is On1

At Kansas City There was hardly a sign of spring in the air at Kansas City early this month, but the sports faithful in the M dwest metropolis talked of little other than baseball, as the Del E. Webb Construction Co. and Winn Senter Construction Co. rushed the high-speed job of bringing the Kansas City stadium up to major league standards. And the "pressure was on" as March

approached, for the hoped-for completion date was April 1, and the pride of Kansas City—the new Kansas City Athletics of the American League —are slated to open their season in the new stadium April 12. The Kansas City Star quoted Job

Engineer Fred Kuentz as declaring, "This is one of the toughest jobs I've ever tackled," and Fred has been on some big ones. In the first months of construction

the chief problem was the stadium footings, those holes in the earth in which concrete bases are established to form a support for the tremendous weight of the second tier and roof— and the fans. There are more than 220 of the

footings at the stadium. Originally it was believed—and hoped—that some were in good shape and would not need be repaired. This expectation was not fulfilled, and all footings have been repaired and new ones poured, with a resulting loss in time and operating budget. Now it is questionable whether a

projected grandstand area in left field. extending beyond the present grandstand limits, will be constructed until after the season starts or, perhaps, until after next baseball season. This is because of limited funds for the stadium remodeling as well as the short time allocated for reconstruction. When the massive face-lifting job is completed, 30,716 seats will be ready for fans in the main stands. The projected extension in left field would add about 4,000 seats. Indicative of the interest in the

stadium reconstruction, Mayor William E. Kemp of Kansas City and several of his councilmen gathered at the field to witness the first pouring of concrete in the new footings. And when the Athletics open spring training in March at West Palm Beach, Fla., the Kansas City baseball faithful will begin whooping things up there. The Kansas City Aero Club, com

posed of those who own private airplanes, has started a movement for an unprecedented mass flight of 500 to 1,000 persons to the training camp exhibition games. Other groups are making arrangements to travel on chartered trains. And West Palm Beach, recognizably delighted, is planning a Kansas City Day at its Gulfstream racetrack and a night at Martha Raye's nightclub.

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I ' ah mm the way 10 Years Is' Long Time In las®fo'#M-—Aftd They've ieert' Eventful For Del Webb-— 1

• H I .« By Wi Allison, Gazelle Sports Editor.

IT'S ANNIVERSARY H e probably spent it flying from some place to some other place, but yes

terday still was an auspicious anniversary in the life of Del E. Webb.

It was just 10 years since the day—Jan. 27, 1945—-when baseball fans took a lengthy look at the papers, turned to each other and said, "Who is this guy Del Webb who just bought the N e w York Yankees?"

The other two parties to the transaction already were nationally known—Dan Topping, millionaire sportsman, and Larry MacPhail, whose fiery personality already had stamped itself on baseball. But this guy Webb?

They learned very quickly that Webb was an old semipro pitcher from Oakland, Calif., who turned to carpentering when his arm went sour, came to Phoenix with a hammer in his back pocket and in the course of the next couple of decades, managed to make himself a few million dollars. Still turning some useful bucks, too, for that matter.

Ten years is a while in baseball. Joe McCarthy was managing the Yankees then; the upheaval that followed his physical crackup was finally resolved with the hiring of Bucky Harris, who won a pennant, finished third the next year and was removed to bring in a certain aged Pacific Coast Leaguer who was known in the majors only as a comedian and a flat failure as a manager—Casey Stengel. Stengel was Webb's recommendation and five pennants in a row justified it. The Yankees' outfield was Charley Keller, T o m m y Henrich

and Joe DiMaggio—one of the all-time great combinations. Aaron Robinson was catching, George McQuinn at first, Snuffy Stirnweiss at second, Billy Johnson at third. Shortstop was a fella named Rizzuto. Little Phil is still there.

The top pitchers were Spud Chandler and Hank Borowy, the center of a great hassle a little later when, by some waiver quirk, he was sold out of the league to the Chicago Cubs and helped them to a pennant.

• TALKED SELF O U T Changes in the Yankees' front office

in 10 years have been as sweeping. Longtime General Manager Ed Barrow retired. MacPhail's great drive took an erratic turn and after a public display following the 1947 World Series, W e b b and Topping bought him out. George Weiss, farm director, became general manager and a man W e b b leaned on heavily in his own construction firm, Bob Becker of Phoenix, became treasurer. The Yankees were converted from a corporation into an equal partnership of W e b b and Topping. The $4i/;>-million-plus the trio spent to buy the club in the first place was topped by the sale of Yankee Stadium, as pure real estate, to Arnold Johnson, now owner of the Philadelphia Athletics. Webb's voice has become stronger in major league councils; (Continued on page 7)


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principal owners are W e b b Company officials. Construction superinteTdent on the job was Fred McDowell

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SPECIAL PREVIEW at Navarre's the night before its public opening included dinner parties attended by a number of Webb Company folks. TOP PANEL shows, (at left), Mr. and Mrs. Fred McDowell, Rosanne McLain, Gen, Mgr. L. C. Jacobson, the Howard Boice s and Jim Millers; (at right), Tom Breen, Vice-Pres. Joe Ashton and his fiancee, Mrs. Helen Rockwell, who plan to wed late in February. CENTER PHOTO—Secy. Treas. Robert Becker and Mrs. Becker, Jerry Wilson and wife, Maggie, who is a radio and TV columnist for the Arizona Republic, Miss Jackie Mantell, and, in right foreground, Mrs. James Donohue. LOWER PANEL shows (at left), Mr. and Mrs. Jim Berridge and the Kim Bannisters; (at right), Architect H. H. Green, who drew plans for Navarre's, and Ralph Cash, an insurance representative of the Webb Company, standing beside entrance displaying Navarre crest.,

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ARIZONA'S LARGEST NEWSPAPER, the Phoenix Republic, in a recent Sunday issue

saluted Tom Breen of the W e b b Company's housing department with this cartoon

by one of its staff artists.

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A SECRETARY at the Phoenix Main Of

fice, Lorraine Greager wasn't able to

attend the annual employe Christmas

party because she was at her Chandler

home recovering from automobile ac

cident injuries. So A. C. (Pop) Jacob-

son of the Operations Department took

her a bottle of champagne served at the

party, as well as a plate of tidbits from

the luncheon. Appreciative Lorrie brought

the bottle (empty) back to Pop the

other day, and, as photo shows, it was

decorated like a little man, with coat,

big bow tie, hat and a little face which

proved to be a photo cut-out of Pop.

Warriners See Crosby Golf The Bill Warriners are back in

San Manuel after a mid-winter vacation jaunt to the west coast where they visited Monterey, where they resided while Bill worked on the Fort Ord military construction project, and after visiting friends and relatives in the Los Angeles area, including the Dale Griffiths. While at Monterey they were interested spectators at the Bing Crosby Open golf tournament. It was the Warriners' first vacation in several years.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS YOUNG! When cheerful, friendly Pop Jacobson of the

Main Office Operations Department ob

served his 71st birthday anniversary Feb.

17 it was a quiet and uneventful day until

mid-afternoon. Then a whole gang of Main

Office secretaries trooped into Operations

with cake and ice cream for >.

a little birthday party, and the photo at

right shows Pop delivering the first slice

of cake to Secretary Rose Romano. His

wish for the girls—that they might live

as long and gain as much from life as he

feels he has gained.

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SPORTS CONFAB between the quartet pictured above took place at the Phoenix Press Box Association's annual Sports Award Dinner at Phoenix this month. From left, the four are Manager Casey Stengel and Owner Del E. Webb of the New York Yankees, Sports Editor Frank Gianelli of the Arizona Republic, and Manager Leo Durocher of the world-champion New York Giants. What are they saying? That's difficult to say but it looks like Leo is (as usual) getting in the last word. B E L O W — The Yankees' Stengel and Webb lend an ear while an old friend, Phil Harris of radio, television and movie fame, gives out with a few tips on how to improve Yankee pitching. Harris was toastmaster at the Sports Award dinner, and Stengel and Webb were among the speakers.

Along The Way (Continued from page 3)

he is both liked and disliked. There are m a n y w h o feel the Yankees, as a rich and powerful club, throw their weight about too m u c h — a s in the case of H a p p y Chandler. S o m e Pacific Coast people m a k e W e b b the villain (undeservedly)

for their unrealized major league ambitions.

But at least nobody asks any more, "Who's this guy Del Webb ? " The husky ex-carpenter who'd like nothing better than to play golf down in the low 70s has had an eventful 10 years in baseball's spotlight.

Webb Company Erects Sahara Oasis Hostelry

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strikingly modern $5,000,000 Hotel Sahara, a 240-room hostelry which still is a Las Vegas showplace.

In addition to the Sahara Oasis addition, the W e b b crew built an addition to the main hotel's administration building for offices and telephone facilities, andr remodeled and enlarged the casino. About 75,000-square feet of parking area and driveways were surfaced, and a 222,000-gallon welded steel water storage tank was installed, after which the water supply system for the entire hotel was renovated.

Son Of Dale Griffiths Weds In Denver Ceremony

It probably still seems to the Dale Griffiths that the "little boy" of theirs suddenly "grew up" mighty fast, but they finally came to that realization when big, strapping Ernie Griffith, now with Uncle Sam's forces at Fort Carson in Colorado, was married and brought his bride to the Griffiths' Glendale, Calif., home for the Christmas holidays.

Ernie met his bride, Dolores E. Pooler of Colorado Springs, after he was assigned to duty at Fort Carson, and the double ring ceremony took place in the First Methodist Church of Colorado Springs. Dale, business manager at the W e b b Company's Los Angeles district office, and wife, Louise, attended the wedding, motoring to Colorado.

Accompanying the Griffiths from Glendale were the grandparents of the bridegroom, Mr. and Mrs. Zina S. Crane of Cummings, N.D., who had been wintering in California. After their visit to Ernie's home the newly-weds returned to Colorado to reside until Ernie completes his Fort Carson assignment.

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Webb Is Class Leader Del W e b b flew from Los Angeles

to Phoenix recently to officiate as class leader when Phoenix Lodge 708, Loyal Order of Moose, held its first Sunday candlelight breakfast and class enrollment. Forty candidates were received into membership, and Regional Director Col. John G. Eager, a long-time friend of Mr. Webb, welcomed the class.

Lambie Polishes Golf Game He hasn't yet finished in the money,

but T o m Lambie, former W e b b Company assistant secretary who resigned to hit the professional golf trail, is picking up experience. H e qualified in both the Phoenix Open and Tucson Open and saw competition among the nation's top pro golfers. Actually, under P.G.A. rules, Lambie is ineligible to win any money prizes until he has been a pro six months.


DIRECTORY

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Del E. Webb, President L. C. Jacobson, Executive Vice President and General Manager


PHOENIX MAIN OFFICE 302 South 23rd Avenue, P.O. Box 4066, Phoenix, Arizona, Phone ALpine 8-7441

J. R. Ashton, Vice President and District Manager Boice, Chief of Operations W. J. Miller, Business Manager Kim Bannister F. S. Murray A. C. Jacobson, Sr. E. W. Flint Alice Murdoch T. E. Breen O. F. Childress Bobby Spaulding Lorraine Greager Geraldine Hamilton J. W. Meeker

J. L. Morton H. G. Winston P. G. Marks J. P. McLain Rosa M. Kort J. V. Parkhill G. G. Grantham Rose Romano

Amy Jo Hafford Kara C. Newell Pearl S. Richardson Florence Olson T. P. Mulkern M. T. Rigg Doris DeHart L. O. Hoeft

Emma Marie Miller Evelyn Martin Gladys Sanders


R. H. Johnson, Vice President and District Manager E. T. Davies, Chief of Operations D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager C. H. Dean R. C. Hintor. Enola Owens Jean Barens E. H. Smith, Jr. Ralph Wanless F. O. Langell Maxine Bean G. A. Anderson F. W. Danielsor. M. F. Webb M. F. Chambers

Martha Little Alice Stewart

CENTRAL LOS ANGELES OFFICE 615 South Commonwealth Ave. Los Angeles. Calif. Phone DUnkirk 9-3631


SAN MANUEL, ARIZONA OFFICE 101 McNab Parkway San Manuel, Ariz. W. N. Davidson. Job Superintendent J. W. Ford, Job Engineer

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI OFFICE Webb-Winn Senter Construction Co. 2128 Brooklyn Kansas City 2 7, Mo. Phone BEnton 8781 W. A. Row, Job Superintendent F. P. Kuentz, Job Engineer R. L. Reeves, Job Office Manager W. A. Slaughter, Job Accountant

SAN DIEGO, CALIF., FIELD OFFICE P.O. Box 9396 4724 Hidalgo Ave. San Diego 17, Calif. Phone Hudson 8-5750 J. N. McPhee. Job Superintendent T. L. Rittenhouse. Job Engineer P. D. Clouthier. Job Office Manager W. C. Edmundson, Job Accountant

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF., OFFICE 9973 Santa Monica Blvd. Beverly Hills, Calif. J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer C. F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager

TUCSON, ARIZONA OFFICE P.O. Box 7245, South Tucson Station Tucson, Arizona Phone 3-4002

E. J. Guinn, Job Office Manager

NORTHWEST PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE 19th Ave. and Thomas Rd. Phoenix. Arizona R. G. Fleming. Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl. Job Office Manager

NORTHEAST PHOENIX, ARIZ , OFFICE Central Ave. and Camelback Rd. Phoenix. Arizona F. L. McDowell. Job Superintendent M. T. Rigg, Job Office Manager

He Had The Answers Paul Marks, Main Office purchasing

agent and TV-viewer par excellence, (if he had two sets he'd try to watch different programs on both at the same time), recently turned momentarily to radio to hear the Groucho Marx quiz on Wednesday night. Next evening he sat down with the Missus to watch the same program on television, a delayed telecast at Phoenix. A really-amazed Cecilia, not knowing Paul had heard the radiocast, couldn't believe her ears as Paul answered each question correctly before the contestant answered. But Expert Marks finally tripped himself. As the final contestants heard the jackpot question and deliberated on their ans

wer, Paul volunteered: "They'll never get the correct answer . . . They'll probably say — — —", and he announced the exact answer (incorrect) they gave a few moments later.

Secretary Loses Mother Sadness came again to the Webb

Company's Main Office personnel recently with the passing of Mrs. Maude O. Bemis of Phoenix, mother of Bobby Spaulding, secretary to Vice-Pres. J. R. Ashton. She had been in ill health for some time. Impressive last rites conducted by the Rev. Frederick A. Barnhill and attended by many Webb Company employees were held Feb. 3 at Phoenix.












Industrial Editors Home Builders Ranked With heme building activity under

way in widely-separated sections of the Pacific-Southwest, the Del E. Webb Construction Co. was ranked th? nation's 12th largest builder of one- and two-family houses (excluding prefabs) during 1934 in a second annual survey conducted by House and Home, leading magazine of the home-building industry.

Birthdays T. F. Hetherington,

Phoenix Mar. 2 Gilbert A. Murray,

Los Angeles Mar. 10

Former Webb Folks Visit Two former Webb Company em

ployees were back in Phoenix briefly during February. Eileen Bagnall Cumpston and her husband, George, who have been residing in the East, were in Phoenix while en route to his new assignment in Peru. Audrey Reiss stopped over to visit Phoenix friends while en route with her father to Honolulu. She showed a two-hour color movie to a number of Webb Company folks on travels she and her father enjoyed in Europe. W e are told that the reason ministers never buy second-hand automobiles is because they don't have the vocabulary to run them.

Life is like a bicycle—stop pedaling and you fall off.

He who would leave footprints in the sands of time will have to wear work shoes.

Some of the things we hear over the air today should bo air-conditioned.


SALUTE to Contractor Del E. W e b b , one of the owners of the N e w York Yankees,

comes from Modesto, Calif., Mayor Harry Marks (left) as he presents a framed copy

of a city council resolution naming Modesto's baseball park Del Webb Field. Webb

pitched there as a young semipro baseballer before he took up construction. Placard

at right refers to Modesto's selection by Look Magazine as one of its "All American"

cities. (Additional pictures, Pages 2 and 3).

California City Names Ballpark For Del Webb

(From The Modesto Bee) Modesto christened its baseball park

after one of its outstanding former citizens last night and Del E. Webb, co-owner of the New York Yankees and millionaire building contractor, described the occasion as "one of the happiest days of my life." Approximately 300 persons jammed

into the Hotel Covell Fable Room to pay tribute to Webb, obtain a glimpse of other diamond celebrities and get warmed up for the 1955 season at the annual Modesto Reds baseball banquet.

It is a day I'll never forget — March 9, 1955," said Webb. He visibly was touched by the honors and praise heaped upon him by citizens of the community in which he spent part of his boyhood days. They gave him a standing ovation. "It is indeed a great honor when I

think back 40 years ago and remember how I tried to get into the Reds' park to work out there—and then today in Modesto to go out to the park and see written in big letters on the fence, Del Webb Park." The crowd cheered when Webb

said: "We hope to continue to send players to help Crosby (Jerry Crosby, Reds' manager) win another pennant for you."

(Continued on page eight)

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AIR VIEW desert at s

sociates to

of San Manuel, model mining community for copper _.- .

ite of a $125,000,000 mine development project. San Manuel has just been so

the M a g m a Copper Co. (Story on Page 7).

miners which mushroomed last year from Southeastern Arizona

las just been sold by the W e b b Company and its as-

THE WEBB SPINNER March, 1955

INVITED to Modesto, Calif., when the town decided to name its ballpark in his honor, Del E. W e b b was greeted by delegation

of Modesto civic leaders when he and his party arrived in his private plane (above, left). Baseball immediately became main

topic of conversation, and group at right above includes, from left, Tony Robello, Yankee scout; W e b b , a Yankee owner;

Tom Mellis, 1954 president of the Modesto Reds, and Jerry Crosby, Reds' manager.

AFTER L U N C H E O N in his honor in beautiful outdoor patio of home of David L. Arata, Modesto city councilman, W e b b posed

(above, left) with two mayors who were on hand to pay their respects, Harry Marks of Modesto, left, and Clifford Rishell of

Oakland, a long-time friend of the Phoenix contractor.

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A VISIT to the Modesto ballpark, now Del W e b b Field, found the Yankee owner posing at home plate with Manager Crosby

for a Modesto photographer. Chat with two more baseball cronies (above, right) preceded evening banquet. They are Walter

Mails, left, former big leaguer who now is the San Franciso Seals' publicity representative, and Bill Brenzel oF Oakland, a

Brooklyn Dodger scout.

March, 1955 THE WEBB SPINNER Page 3

MODESTO HOSTS escorted Del Webb to ballpark to look over reconstruction program, (above) since stands burned to the ground shortly after close of 1954 playing season.

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AT BANQUET in his honor, (below) Mr. Webb chats with Councilman Arata and Jack Macdonald, right, master of ceremonies and a long-time acquaintance. Macdonald radiocasts Modesto games. Al RIGHT—Part of the crowd of 300 which attended baseball dinner in Hotel Covell Fable Room.

IT'S OFFICIAL! Future home games of the Modesto Reds will be played in Del Webb Park. Group pictured (above) includes, from left, Manager Crosby, Mr. Webb, Scout Robello, Mayor Rishell of Oakland and City Councilman Arata of Modesto.


High-Speed Construction To Provide Kansas Cii

CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS to Feb. 23 as viewed from center field.


ajor League Baseball Park For April 10 Opener

fNTER S N O W didn't halt the rush job (above). Holes at are for new footings. Line of footings in center have mn base plates in place, ready for grouting.

S E B A L L , with its golden sus-jisetul moments is but a few leeks away for thousands of Midst fans, for the American League Metics are coming to Kansas ty. But to accommodate the big ague crowds, a big league stad-m had to be constructed. The job s assigned the Del Webb-Winn

enter Construction Co. last Nov-kiber, and it represented a good ear of work. But Kansas City anted the new major league park jr its opening g a m e against De-it on April 12, 1955. So it will ready, in just five months, a mendous job of creating virtu-y an entire new stadium and ubling the seating capacity,

5pm 15,826 to 30,716.

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DRILLING of four-foot caissons called for erection of a timber bridge on seat risers on which drilling truck traveled. Crane in background moved along on a bridge which served as its working platform.

of new seating area.

GENERAL VIEW of old Kansas City stadium before Webb-Winn Senter workmen tore it apart and began the rebuilding.


S T A N F O R D UNIVERSITY'S business manager, A. E. (Alf) Brandin, left, above, and

a friend, Jim Reynolds, at his side, looked over the W e b b Company's San Manuel

townsite project recently in company of L. C. Jacobson, center, executive vice-

president and general manager of the W e b b firm; Bill Warriner, San Manuel town

manager, and Joe Ashton, W e b b Company vice-president and Phoenix district mana

ger. Brandin has been studying large housing developments in the Pacific-

Southwest.

Thousands View Webb Company's New Encanto Homes Project The beautiful Encanto Estates

homes development in Northwest Phoenix was opened by the Webb Company last month and since has attracted thousands of visitors who wished to view the modern dwellings heralded as "the home which the purchaser plans." Prospective purchasers begin with

one of several basic plans, and then

can select refinements of their choice from a list of 38 items, including such features as refrigerated air conditioning, touchplate lighting system, cedar-lining in closets, built-in kitchen oven and range, garbage disposal, or cork flooring in some of the rooms. Final cost, depending upon the

number of additional features selected, ranges from $16,000 to about

$25,000, and virtually represents a

custom-built house. The project, known as Luxur-Life

Homes, was conceived by Vice-Pres. J. R. Ashton of the Webb Company, and is being built on one of the few large housing sites remaining inside the city of Phoenix. It is immediately adjacent to West Phoenix High School and the municipal golf course at Encanto Park. Homes were designed by Ralph Haver, Phoenix architect. In connection with the opening, of

ficials of the Webb Company awarded $2,000 in cash prizes to persons who made the best selections of the features offered in the new homes. Each entrant selected and numbered what he or she considered the 15 most important features in an ideal home. Winners are pictured below.

T O P W I N N E R S In a "new homes fea

tures" competition sponsored by the

W e b b Company in connection with

opening of its Luxur-Life project are

pictured above with Ralph Haver, right,

designer of the homes and president of

the Phoenix chapter, American Institute

of Architects. They are Charles B. Chris

ty, Phoenix, to whom Haver hands a

$1,000 check; Mrs. Donald McLean,

Phoenix, who received $350 second prize,

and Mrs. E. F. Dooley, at left, Luke Air

Force Base, who won $150 third award.

M O D E L H O M E pictured above is one of those opened in new Encanto Estates developed at Phoenix. Named Luxur-Life Homes,

they have attracted a steady stream of Interested visitors.

. March, 1955 THE WEBB SPINNER Page 7

Builders S< Their Interests In San Manuel

San Manuel, the model community built for copper miners in a raw desert area of Southeastern Arizona by the Del E. W e b b Construction Co. and west coast associates, has been sold to M a g m a Copper Co. for 23,375 shares of M a g m a stock.

Based on the M a g m a stock's quota-| tion on the N e w York Exchange in mid-March, the builders' interest in

i the townsite brought them more than • $ 1 % million. All parties to the trans-•• action have until March 30 to com-«• ply with conditions of the agreement.

M a g m a takes over all commercial !• property and the 1,000 homes built by II the W e b b Company, on which mortgages are held by private financial institutions. The townsite development

I represented a $10,000,000 investment, and the $l?i million in stock is simply for the builders' interests.

The developers, chiefly officials of the W e b b Company and the Aldon Construction Co. of Bellflower, Calif., retained their interests in certain commercial business in the townsite.

o

RECOGNIZE THAT H O M B R E in center of photo at right? That's our boy, Bill Warriner, who came out from Monterey, Calif., by way of Denver, St. Louis and Amarillo and took right to cowboying! Bill has been a full-fledged member of the San Pedro >•

J Valley Sheriff's Posse since he's been town \ manager for the Webb Company at San j Manuel, and he's pictured with two San

Manuel "pioneers", A. C. Jacobson, Jr., left, trailer court manager, and Lonnie McFadden, tavern manager and president

, of the posse. They were photographed at recent Sheriff's Posse rodeo at Phoenix.

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SURPRISE! If Vice-Pres. Joe Ashton of the W e b b Company thought he was going to be able to quietly emplane with Helen Rockwell to be married on the West Coast early this month, he reckoned without Secty-Treas. Robert Becker and Gen. Mgr. L. C. Jacobson, who were at Phoenix Sky Harbor to bid them bon voyage. And as they arrived at the plane, •m% TV and still cameramen went into action and a T W A stewardess welcomed them, wished them much happiness, and pinned on the bride-to-be a beautiful corsage. Note, In photo at left, how pleased are Becker and Jacobson with all the fuss being made over the travelers. The Ashtons, wed in Santa Barbara, have been honeymooning In Mexico.

Birthdays E m m a Marie Miller, Phoenix April 6

Milford Rigg, Phoenix April 10 Rosa Kort, Phoenix April 13 Doug Clouthier, San Diego April 14 Bobby Spaulding, Phoenix ....April 17 Kara Newell, Phoenix April 23


DIRECTORY I f n vrp

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Del E. Webb, President L. C. Jacobson, Executive Vice President and Genera] Manager


PHOENIX MAIN OFFICE 302 South 23rd Avenue, P.O. Box 4066. Phoenix, Arizona, Phone ALpine 8


Kim Bannister F. S. Murray A. C. Jacobson, Sr. E. W. Flint Alice Murdoch T. E. Breen O. F. Childress Bobby Spaulding Lorraine Greager Geraldine Hampton J. W. Meeker

J. L. Morton H. G. Winston P. G. Marks J. P. McLain Uosa M. Kort J. V. Parkhill G. G. Grantham Rose Romano


Emma Marie Miller Evelyn Martin Gladys Sanders

LOS ANGELES DISTRICT OFFICE 5101 San Fernando Road W".. Los Angeles 39, Phone CHapman 5-2616

R. H. Johnson, Vice President and District Manager E. T. Davies, Chief of Operations D. E. Griffith. Assistant Business Manager C. H. Dean R. C. Hinton Enola Owens E. H. Smith, Jr. Ralph Wanles; F. O. Langell G. A. Anderson F. W. Danielson M. F. Webb

Martha Little

Jean Barens Maxine Bean M. F. Chambers Alice Steers

CENTRAL LOS ANGELES OFFICE 615 South Commonwealth Ave. Los Angeles. Calif. Phone DUnkirk 9-3631 G. A. Murray, Job Superintendent W. R. Foeht, Job Office Manager

SAN MANUEL. ARIZONA OFFICE 101 McNab Parkway-San Manuel, Ariz. J. W. Ford. Job Engineer

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI OFFICE Webb-Winn Senter Construction Co. 212S Brooklyn Kansas City 2 7, Mo. Phone BEnton 8781

W. A. Row. Job Superintendent F. P. Kuentz, Job Engineer R. L. Reeves, Job Office Manager W. A. Slaughter, Job Accountant

SAN DIEGO, CALIF.. OFFICE P.O. Box 9396 4724 Hidalgo Ave. San Diego_17, Calif. Phone Hudson 8-5750 J. N. McPhee, Job Superintendent T. L. Rittenhouse. Job Engineer P. D. Clouthier. Job Office Manager W. C. Edmundson. Job Accountant

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF., OFFICE 9973 Santa Monica Blvd. Beverly Hills, Calif. J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer C. F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager

TUCSON, ARIZONA OFFICE P.O. Box 7245, South Tucson Station Tucson, Arizona Phone 3-4002 E. J. Guinn, Job Office Manager

NORTHWEST PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE 19th Ave. and Thomas Rd. Phoenix. Arizona R. G. Fleming, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

NORTHEAST PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE Central Ave. and Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona F. L. McDowell. Job Superintendent M. T. Rigg, Job Office Manager

Modesto To Play Homes (Continued from page one)

Jack Macdonald, master of ceremonies, closed the program by reading telegrams and letters of congratulations from California Gov. Goodwin Knight, Dan Topping, associated with Webb in the Yankee ownership; George Weiss, Yankee business manager; Pacific Coast League Pres. Claire Goodwin, and officials of all the National and American League baseball clubs. Webb was introduced by Modesto

Mayor Harry Marks, who said the municipal park had been renamed Del Webb Park because the city was proud of Webb's tremendous contributions to baseball. The Yankee executive was preceded to the speakers'

Games At Del Webb Park table by Manager Crosby of the Reds, who congratulated Modesto for naming the park after Webb. At the speakers' table with Webb was a brother, H. J. Webb, former Navy commander. Both were born and reared in the Fresno area.

o Indians used to scalp their enemies.

Nowadays government officials do the skinning. If you can't make both ends meat,

make one vegetable. The fact that Americans chew a

million dollars' worth of gum every week, shows how much we will do for practically nothing. W e suspect that a tuba quartet

would be known as a tubafour.








John Morton, Phoenix Dale Griffith. Los Angeles CIRCULATION MANAGER


Society of Associated industrial Editors


Industrial Editors What To Do? Johnny Morton of the Main Office

accounting department isn't certain now whether he should drive faster, slower, or just park and get out of harm's way. The Mortons and Riggs were motoring out to dinner the other night when an automobile rammed the Morton sedan from behind, caving in the rear. The other driver claimed he had fallen asleep at the wheel of his roaring juggernaut. Johnson's 'Family' Grows She came to reside with the Robert

Johnsons (Bob is Los Angeles manager for the Webb Company) on Christmas Eve, and Johnson still isn't certain what he should do with her. "She" is a small Mexican burro, now named "Josephine", and she was the gift of a friend who thought the Johnsons should have something to occupy the new stables Bob recently completed on the rear of his spacious Pasadena property. But his own, and all the neighbor kids, love Josephine.

o

Welcome, Joni Lynn! Mr. and Mrs. John Barens (Jean

is former receptionist and PB operator at the Los Angeles office) have welcomed their first offspring. Joni Lynn (could they have wanted a boy?) arrived at 6:10 a.m., March 10 at P & S Hospital in Glendale, Calif., weighing in at seven pounds, 10 ounces. Mother, daughter — and father — are reported doing well.

o A man's age can be measured by

the degree of pain he feels as he comes in contact with a new idea. People living in our large cities

today are confronted with two problems—where to park and where to jump.

o A bet can be made more ways than won.


High-Speed Construction Of Ball Stadium Hailed As History-Making In Kansas City

To design and build a major league baseball stadium in 4 % months, normally a one-year job, calls for record-breaking construction speed from groundbreaking to the final placing of each seat. Yet on Tuesday, April 12—Opening Day in Kansas City, Missouri, for major league baseball—the Del E. W e b b Construction Co. and Winn-Senter Construction Co. delivered to the Kansas City Athletics, the municipal author- •*-ities, and the citizens of that Midwest metropolis a magnificent completed stadium which promptly took its place with the finest structures of its kind anywhere.

And the plaudits of officialdom and fans alike hailed the feat as a "Big League" project exemplifying "Big League" performance on the

part of the joint-venture construction firms. Of the swift construction achieve

ment, famed Editor Roy A. Roberts wrote in the Kansas City Star:

"The Municipal Stadium is a gem. There is room for more seats and expansion, just as Kansas City looks

(Continued on Page 3)

Stadium Project Economy Cited

BY KIM CLARK (Of The Kansas City Star's Staff) A monument to Kansas City's fam

ous spirit of achievement is embodied in the steel and the concrete, the paint and the wood and the sod at the sparkling new Kansas City Municipal Stadium. Visitors have stood in awe upon

the new upper deck, with new and astonishing sights meeting every inch of their vision.


(THE Morning KANSAS CITY STAR)

VOL. IIS. NO. KANSAS CITY, APRIL 13, 1955-WEDNESDAY-40 PAGES. PRICE 5 CENTS.

GREAT DAY FOR A'S FANS First and Foremost, the Athletics Defeat Detroit, 6-2, and

That's What the Record Crowd of 32,844 \S as There to Cheer For.

FINE ROLE BY SUN Considering All the Worry Ii

Caused, Ihe fffittur Ii Almost Perfect.

CHEERS JMJHE_ST«DIUM Even Before Ihe Home Run^ Fancy FMCIIIJIK snd FieldInf,

the Crowd Is Eiclted.

A C A P A C I T Y C R O W D P O U R S I N T O T H E M U N I C I P A L S T A D I U M to watch the debut yesterday afternoon of

the Kansas City Athletics. This aerial photograph looks south, with a parking lot and bus loading zone in the foreground.

Brooklyn avenue-is at the left, with Twenty-second street running horizontally behind the tip of the stadium roof. The

last section of a tarpaulin is being removed from the infield in this pre-game photograph. In the right-field area and

over other parts of the outfield is sawdust, used to help dry the playing field made soggy by heavy rains early yesterday

—(Kansas City Star aerial photograph).

nnnn imormir m mini so I WIFE FOR AMER,

It was the biggest of

ficially counted Kansas

City sports crowd

tory, and the Athletics

won the ball game.

They shoehorned 32,844

paid customers into the

big new double-decker

yesterday afternoon for

Kansas City's grand entry

into the big leagues.

And is e v e r y b o d y

happy? Did the seismo

graphs around the coun

try pick up the vibrations

of the Athletics batting

ttack? All afternoon

there was such a crashing

and banging as our A's

lasted out the base hits.

The score: Kansas City

6: Detroit. 2.

Attendance Figures for

Opening Games.

AMERICAN.

-(Played Monday*.

IN, OUT EASILY Traffic Flow* Smoothly at Sl».

dlum, Considering Slie

ol Croud.

PRAISE FOR POLICE SQUADS

JOY IN OPENER

FINE DAY FOR THE OWNER

Bv RAY MORGAN.

It would be difficult to

find a more excited m an

anywhere than the beam

ing Arnold Johnson, w h o

stood in his box yesterday

afternoon after the Ath

letics had beaten the De

troit Tigers in the open

ing game, 6 to 2.

him were

Johnson,.

baicbajl n

ind the 92-year-i

Inarch. Connie Mai

The second worst worry

about the baseball game

yesterday—how the traf

fic situation would work

out—was squelched thirty

minutes after the A's put

an end to the first worry

by winning.

That Is not to say everything

was perfect. CettinE out nf a

stadium along with nearly 33,000

the family garage in the morn

ing.

In the opinion o( Capt Wil-

liam J. Kirchner, w h o directed the 60-man traffic detail at the

itra] opinion

F.. Parker.

.[ the crowd w a s seated u minutes belore g a m e

irking spaces were lull.

IT W A S BIG N E W S ! The new Municipal Stadium, a record-breaking turnout of 32,844 fans, and an opening-game victory over the Detroit Tigers by their new major-league Athletics was the biggest news of the day at Kansas City, Mo., in mid-April. Pictured is a reproduction of the top of the front page of the usually-conservative Times, morning edition of the Kansas City Star.

THE WEBB SPINNER April, 1955

From The Upper Deck To The Sideline Boxes,

THIS W A S T H E C O L O R F U L S C E N E as 32,844 paid customers jampacked the huge

new Kansas City Municipal Stadium to watch the debut of their Kansas City

Athletics. It was the biggest officially-counted sports crowd in Kansas City history,

and the Athletics won the

for Arnold Johnson, new OWN /(

pany had a major role in tl o •:;

IF T H E A'S suffered last year from anemic fan interest in Philadelphia,

it wasn't going to happen to them at their new Kansas City home.

Their welcome began as a chartered plane delivered them in Kansas

City following spring training, and continued in a colorful parade

through the business district. One of many floats is pictured.

HMtt AT O P E N I N G GAME, some of action from ' pawed the first ball ' Arizonan, Alex Kellnei 1955 victory as the As

April, 1955 THE WEBB SPINNER Page 5

ity Athletics Fans Formed Historic Crowd

•jfs, 6 to 2. It was a big day

;• bb, whose construction com-

. the stadium, and for every

JHIl W e b b , right, watched 'President, who south-

started. And another 1 t credit for his first

one of the nearly 33,000 roaring fans who got to see just what they came for—an

opening-day victory. Interest still didn't slacken just because the A's soon dropped

into the second division In American League standings.

AT E D G E O F D I A M O N D , as shown in this panoramic photo of Kansas

City Municipal Stadium, players of both Kansas City and Detroit teams

joined the huge crowd in standing with heads bared during the playing

of National Anthem.


You Just Sock The Ball And Take Your Chances!

Gen. Mgr. L. C. Jacobson and Vice-Pres. Joe Ashton of the Webb Company were playing golf at Paradise Valley Country Club near Phoenix with Russ Lyon and Jim Coles.

Approaching the 18th green, Ashton got a terrific hook on his second shot, and the ball sailed out of bounds over a fence and into the automobile parking lot about 75 yards from the 18th green.

Joe must have shuddered when the ball landed on an automobile with an audible thud.

There probably were a hundred cars in the parking lot, but when Joe got over there, what do you suppose he discovered . . . ?

The ball had hit his own car! o

Faster Get-Away Now Johnny Morton has decided to give

up on the ol' Ford he was driving, and has blossomed out in a spanking new two-tone number that brightens up the employe parking space. Johnny apparently decided the old one wasn't fast enough to keep out of the way of other motorists after a driver smacked into the rear of his Ford while he and Ruth and the Milford Riggs were out driving one evening, and put it in the repair garage.

FOR WRITING the best news story of 1954 in any Arizona newspaper, daily or weekly, Editor Jerry McLain of the San Manuel Miner was awarded the Arizona Press Club's top prize of $100 this month. It was a story of a mine rescue at San Manuel, which he wrote for the weekly newspaper he edits and publishes for the San Manuel Publishing Co., a subsidiary owned by officials of the Webb Company and west coast associates. McLain also is editor of The Webb Spinner.

Stadium Project Economy Cited

(Continued from page 1) There have been some jokes about

the height of the upper deck; some wags have suggested vendors might advertise "peanuts, popcorn and oxygen masks." But the jests merely point up the impressiveness of it all —the new upper deck rising nine stories above the ground, the new concourses and concession stands, the new general offices, dressing rooms, playing area, scoreboard, seats, interior and exterior paint jobs and ticket booths.

Strangely, the most amazing quality about the stadium is "time"; the time in which the park has been altered from an adequate but drab minor league plant into a glittering, modern major league facility. And when one mentions time, he is reminded of the many comments made by persons connected with the construction job concerning cooperation.

"No one person or group of persons has done this job," Fred Kuentz, job engineer, said yesterday. "It's been a community effort, from Arnold Johnson and the leaders of Kansas City right on down to the guy who painted the flagpole. "Everyone pitched in. The city

government, the ball club, the contractor and the subcontractors, the unions and the workers. W h y , w e had a full crew working out here in m u d up to their knees and in snow six inches deep when other workers were home." The razing job took less than two

months. And the job of building the stadium back up from the ground level amazingly took less than three months.

" W e had to work under conditions which never before existed," Kuentz said. H e explained that the subcontrac

tors, all Kansas Citians, met situations in the face of which most officials would have thrown up their hands and said: "Let's wait until later." "But these m e n pitched right in

and got the job done quickly," the job engineer said.

And when Kansas Citians see their new park, they m a y point with pride to a stadium which, although remodeled under hectic conditions, was rebuilt at the smallest per-seat cost of any major stadium in the nation. The per-seat cost here has been $80. That of other parks ranges from $120 to $150. Yet no expense has been spared in

making the park modern and comfortable in every way.

From the towering floodlights high atop the roof to the resodded playing field, Kansas City's park stands out among major league plants. The lights, for instance, will pro

vide the best illumination of any park in the majors. The 950 floodlights will provide more than 1,000 times the illumination on an average well-

lighted street in Kansas City. More than half of the 30,899 seats

in the stadium are new. The new seats are wider than those found in most baseball parks and are more comfortable. The seats have been placed so that fans will have ample leg room. And every seat in the park has been repainted; the bright new turquoise color is one of the most attractive features. The dressing room facilities for

both home and visiting teams, as well as for the umpires, have been refurbished and are said to be superior to those of most major league plants. A m o n g the numerous other im

provements—and one of vast importance to the individual fan—is the concession arrangement. Thirteen modern stands have been installed and four commissaries, where vendors pick up their wares, have been built. The vast remodeling job has ex

tended outside the newly-painted outer walls of the park. Streets and sidewalks have been widened. In less than five months, a dream

has come true: Kansas City has a splendid major league stadium.

HAVING COMPLETED his assignment as town manager and unofficial "mayor" of San Manuel, Bill Warriner, pictured at left above, now is vacationing while awaiting a new assignment from Webb Company headquarters in Phoenix. Shortly before he left San Manuel, the new copper mining city built by the Webb Company in Southeastern Arizona, Bill took Time Magazine's Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., on a tour of the townsite, mine and smelter project. They are pictured looking over a copy of the San Manuel Miner, weekly newspaper. Subsequently, in a letter to R. A. Becker, Webb Company secretary-treasurer, who had arranged his San Manuel visit, Time's representative termed the project "very impressive".


When Old Ballplayers Get Together, They 'Bat The Breeze'

A Y A N K E E S C O U T , Tony Robello, left, is pictured at Modesto, Calif., baseball

opener with two old semi-pro ballplayers who as youths were teammates, Dave

Arata, center, Modesto councilman, and Del W e b b , New York Yankee owner.

Yankee Owner Attends Opener At Del Webb Park MODESTO, Calif. — It had been

almost 40 years, but the spirit still was there, even if some of the steam was gone. And it was just like old times, with Dave Arata behind the plate, and Del Webb wielding the hickory in the batter's box. Mayor Harry Marks chucked sev

eral fast ones, and the lanky Webb went down swinging. They gave him another try, and he banged a single between first and second to open Modesto's 1955 baseball season at Del Webb Park. Stockton later dashed hopes of home town fans for an opening-game victory by turning back Modesto, 7-1. For Webb, the California League

opener made possible a return to his old stamping grounds, where as a youth he first played for pay in 1916-17. And Modesto folks, including Dave Arata, now a prominent businessman and Modesto city councilman, recently honored the Yankee owner by naming their little stadium "Del Webb Park". His reunion with Arata, a room

mate of his early playing days, provided an opportunity to cut up some old touches. Arata was a third baseman in those early days. Webb, a native of Fresno, was a first baseman and a fair hitter. But he quit baseball less 1han a decade later afler a prom-

< Continued on Page Eight)

AS A Y O U T H , at a time when he never

dreamed that one day he'd be an owner

of a major league baseball club which

would win five consecutive world cham

pionships, Del W e b b supplemented his

carpenter's income with some semi-pro

baseball activity—and he was a right

capable pitcher and hitter, the records

indicate. So when he checked in at M o

desto, Calif., in mid-April to watch the

Modesto Reds open their season at Del

W e b b Park, they sent Yankee Owner

W e b b to the plate to swing at some of

tii3 offerings of Mayor Harry Marks, with

Councilman Dave Arata, a teammate of

Webb's playing days, behind the plate.

The pictures above don't tell the FULL

story, for after backing away from a

wild one or two, W e b b F A N N E D . But

at the fans' urging he stayed at the

plate and, as shown below, successfully

laid down a single between first and

second—and Modesto's 1955 baseball season was underway.


DIRECTORY DTI I *t re

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R. A. Becker, Secretary T. F. Hetherington, Jr.. Assistant Secretary

PHOENIX MAIN OFFICE 302 South 23rd Avenue, P.O. Box 4066. Phoenix, Arizona, Phone ALpine 8-7441

J. R. Ashton, Vice President and District Manager Boice, Chief of Operations W. J. Miller. Business Manager Kim Banniste: F. S. Murray A. C. Jacobson. Sr. E. W. Flint Alice Murdoch T. E. Breen O. F. Childress Bobby Spaulding Lorraine Greager Geraldine Hampton J. W. Meeker Evelyn Martin

H. G. Winston P. G. Marks J. L. Morton J. P. McLain Rosa M. Kort J. V. Parkhill G. G. Grantham Rose Romano


Emma Marie Miller Gladys Sanders D. L. Kauffman

LOS ANGELES DISTRICT OFFICE 5101 San Fernando Road W., Los Angeles 39. Phone CHapman 5-2616

R. H. Johnson, Vice President and District Manager E. T. Davies, Chief of Operations D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager C. H. Dean R. C. Hintor. Enola Owens M. F. Chambers E. H. Smith, Jr. Ralph Wanle = = V. O. Langell Alice Stears G. A. Anderson F. W. Danielson M. F. Webb Beverly Otten

Martha Little S. A. Grubbs E. B. York

CENTRAL LOS ANGELES OFFICE 615 South Commonwealth Ave. Los Angeles, Calif. Phone DUnkirk 9-3631


SAN MANUEL, ARIZONA OFFICE 101 McNab Parkway San Manuel, Ariz. J. W. Ford, Job Engineer

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI OFFICE Webb-Winn Senter Construction Co. 2128 Brooklyn Kansas City 2 7, Mo. Phone BEnton 8781 W. A. Row. Job Superintendent F. P. Kuentz. Job Engineer R. L. Reeves, Job Office Manager W. A. Slaughter. Job Accountant

SAN DIEGO, CALIF., OFFICE P.O. Box 9396 4724 Hidalgo Ave. San Diego 9, Calif. Phone BRoadway 3-6234 J. N. McPhee, Job Superintendent T. L. Rittenhouse, Job Engineer P. D. Clouthier, Job Office Manager W. C. Edmundson, Job Accountant

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF., OFFICE 9973 Santa Monica Blvd. Beverly Hills, Calif. Phone BRadshaw 2-8153 J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo_ Guizot, Job Engineer C. F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager

TUCSON. ARIZONA OFFICE P.O. Box 7245, South Tucson Station Tucson. Arizona Phone 3-4002

E. J. Guinn. Job Office Manager

NORTHWEST PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE 19th Ave. and Thomas Rd. Phoenix. Arizona R. G. Fleming, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

NORTHEAST PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE Central Ave. and Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona F. L. McDowell, Job Superintendent M. T. Rigg, Job Office Manager

Yankee Owner Attends Opener At Del Webb Park (Continued from Page 7)

ising pitching career faded when his arm went bad. Then, after gaining national recognition in the building construction field, he came back into the big league baseball picture as a Yankee owner. "It's great to be here," Webb told

Modesto friends, "and have dinner with Dave and his wonderful wife, Mabel, and then to cut a few capers with Mayor Marks doing the pitching, Dave catching and me hitting to help give the Modesto Reds a send-off in their opener at the new Del Webb Park. "I am honored and extremely ap

preciative that the city of Modesto would name its park for me when I look around the Modesto of today and

see what outstanding contributions to their community other of its citizens have made. "Dave Arata is just the same great

guy he was when we played baseball, and I feel just as much at home with him now as I did when we quit baseball and went our separate ways several years ago. Several of the players on our club got to the big leagues, and Dave very likely could have become a major leaguer, too, for he really could play third base and hit. But he married young and decided to settle down in California and enter business with his father rather than pursue a baseball career. "I have a hunch, too, that Dave

had no small part in Iho naming of Del Webb Field."

Volume 9 No. Published by the

DEL E. W E B B CONSTRUCTION CO. Main Office. South 23rd Ave,






John Morton. Phoenix Dale Griffith, Los Angeles CIRCULATION MANAGER




Industrial Editors Birthdays Blackie Hoeft, Phoenix May 15 Del E. Webb, Phoenix May 17 Howard Boice, Phoenix May 20 R. O. Reichard, Jr.,

Los Angeles May 23 J. A. Ashton, Phoenix May 27 Enola Owens, Los Angeles May 29

o A telephone girl's occupation is

neither a business nor a profession. It's a calling.

Haven't You Heard, Pop? Tom Hetherington, Jr., Webb Com

pany assistant secretary at the Phoenix office, telephoned his wife from Los Angeles shortly before emplaning for his Phoenix home. They were in-fanticipating, and he wanted to be certain she was all right. She assured him she was. Then he had to delay his departure for several hours, then several more hours, and finally through the night. He arrived home about mid-morning next day, to find Nell gone. A neighbor came dashing over to shout congratulations. Tom then learned he was the father of a new eight-pound daughter, Martha Jean, born April 19 in St. Joseph's Hospital. The young miss, second daugher for the Hetheringtons, had put in an early arrival.

o

Just Call Her 'Mom' Charlotte Snow, former Main Office

secretary, and her husband, Gerald, are accepting congratulations on their new offspring, Charisse, who weighed seven pounds, six ounces when she arrived at St. Joseph's Hospital early the morning of April 14.

o Charity should begin at home. What

causes so much trouble is that so many people don't stay home long enough to begin it. No matter what happens, there is always someone who knew it would.

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Construction Of Motor Hotels Is Started By Webb Co. In Phoenix, Two Texas Cities A multi-million dollar building program involving erection of motor hotels

in Phoenix and two Texas cities for the Flamingo chain has been started by the Del E. Webb Construction Co. Slated for early fall completion, the new hostelries will be the Hotel Sahara,

located in the heart of downtown Phoenix; the El Paso Flamingo and the San Antonio Flamingo. They will be jointly owned and op

erated by officials of the Flamingo Hotel chain and officials of the Webb Company—Del E. Webb, L. C. Jacob-son, R. A. Becker, J. R. Ashton, R. H. Johnson and their associate, Roy Drachman, Tucson realtor. The Flamingo system is headed by M. M. Levin and M. L. Sherman of Chicago, and

UPTOWN PLAZA, newest and one of Phoenix' largest rural shopping centers, is taking shape. Construction views are shown above and below.

apidly

Mike Robinson, Phoenix, managing director of the chain's motor hotels in Las Vegas, Nev., Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff, Wickenburg, Yuma and Mc-Allen, Tex.

The 200-room Sahara in Phoenix will cover a square block bounded by Polk, Taylor, First and Second streets. The El Paso Flamingo will be ap

proximately 120 units and the San Antonio Flamingo about 100 units. They will be similar in design, western style of construction and beautifully located on outskirts of the Texas cities. Each will have a coffee shop, attractive lobby, sparkling swimming pool, and artistic landscaping. Webb Company men already are

actively engaged in preliminaries of construction on the two Texas hostelries. Frank E. Warren is superintending the job at El Paso and W. A. (Bill) Warriner has charge of the San Antonio project. Construction of the Phoenix Sahara

is in charge of Fred McDowell, who directed the pouring of footings on part of the site early this month. The square block location has been occupied by two large automobile parking lots, a used car sales lot, and an automobile body shop. Site clearing had to be delayed because the body shop is not scheduled to be moved to its new location until June.


New Weapon Unveiled A supersonic guided missile that can

"think" for itself and can swifty destroy enemy bombers at great distances from American targets is being manufactured, the Air Force has revealed, at the Hughes Aircraft Co. multi-million dollar guided missile plant which the Webb Company built at Tucson, Ariz. The slender, six-foot, blunt-nosed rocket will be carried beneath the wing of long-range, all weather interceptors and jet fighters. Movies shown newsmen revealed how the guided rocket, pointed on its way by the launching airplane, pursues its target despite effort by the bomber to evade it.

THE WEBB SPINNER May, 1955

Modernistic New Restaurant Under Construction At Phoenix

ARCHITECT'S C O N C E P T I O N of new dining establishment being erected by the W e b b Company at its Uptown Plaza shopping

center development in Phoenix for Helsing's Restaurants, a new Arizona corporation. Modernistic structure is located at Cen

tral Avenue and Camelback Road, one of the busiest corners in the capital city. Photo below shows interesting steel framework

for the restaurant.

A former Chicago and Miami, Fla., restaurant owner and operator who decided he'd rather live in the Southwest has settled down in Phoenix and is getting right back knee-deep in— you guessed it, the restaurant business. O. A. Helsing moved to Phoenix to

reside permanently in 1953, a real Johnny-come-lately. It didn't take him long to decide the restaurant business was still for him, whether in Chicago, Miami, or Phoenix. H e has acquired and leased one busy downtown restaurant, and built another in the heart of the business district. N o w he's awaiting completion by

the Webb Company of his newest and

one of Phoenix' most stylish and modern eating establishments. To be known as Helsing's, it will be located at Central and Camelback at a central point in the multi-million dollar Uptown Plaza shopping center being pushed toward completion by Webb Company workmen. The restaurant will seat 112 persons, mostly in booths. It will have a curved backbar and counter in the main dining room, with seats for 20 persons. Sides of the dining room, which

will occupy the west side of the building, will form entries to the Up-lown Plaza shopping center on the north and the street intersection on

the south. The structure was designed by

Matthew Trudelle, Phoenix architect. Job superintendent on the restaurant and shopping center project is Fred McDowell, with M. T. Rigg serving as job office manager.

o

Remember— Efficiency is only another name for

doing the right thing at the right time. Defeat isn't bitter, if you don't

swallow it. Forty is the old age of youth, and

fifty is the youth of old age. There is nol a person on earth you

cannot learn to like if you want to.

May, 1955 THE WEBB SPINNER Page 3

Hilton's N e w Hotel To Bring Push-Button Era For Guests

(Editor's Note: The following story concerning the ultra-modern new Bevery Hilton being built by Webb Company crews in California was recently distributed nationally by United Press). H O L L Y W O O D — ( U P ) — N o w they're

building a hotel with climate control. Patrons can push a button and switch the temperature of their rooms from virtually Artie night to steaming Congo. Climate control is only one of doz

ens of off-beat specials to be afforded guests at the new $14 million Beverly Hilton Hotel which opens in August. The luxury hostelry promises to be West Coast headquarters for the carriage trade, with television and private terraces for every room. The eight-story structure will be

equipped with a roof-top heliport providing whirlybird service from Beverly Hills to Los Angeles Airport, Santa Anita race track, or wherever else guests might decide to stray. Artist-Designer Don May says he

doubts if the heliport will get much

S P A R K L I N G JEWEL. The worldwide hotel chain he is creating is making history,

but the pride of Hotelman Conrad Hilton still is the new Beverly Hilton Hotel which

the W e b b Company is building and which today sets like a sparkling jewel in the

heart of Beverly Hills, Calif. Construction of the fashionable hostelry will be sub

stantially completed by early June, and work during the summer will proceed on a

galaxy of shops adjoining it. The hotel will be lavishly furnished this summer for a

gala August opening. Photo above is an air view made several months ago.

play because visitors will be so taken with Conrad Hilton's latest plushery they'll have no desire to leave the premises. Most unique of the innovations are

the individual temperature controls. The personalized atmosphere system allows choice of humidity and temperature. If the customer wants a broiling

N e w York summer all he has to do is flick a button. If it's 95 degrees outside and he wants to make like an Eskimo he punches another button to produce his own private igloo. If worst comes to worst, the pam

pered guest can always throw open the window or stroll on his terrace to enjoy the balmy California weather'. Another exclusive is a glassed-in

cocktail lounge and dining room with accommodations for 70. It will be adjacent to the heliport and patterned after San Francisco's famed Top-O-The-Mark, but limited in view to the Hollywood Hills, oil derricks on the horizon, and city hall—on a clear day. The menu will be hand-written and

orders will be given directly to the chef. He'll prepare exotic dishes behind a glass partition where customers can kibitz. Gourmets will be allowed to instruct him on fine points.

N o w all that remains is the opening ceremony. Those with private helicopters will be especially welcome to "drop in" on the world's snazziest new boarding house.

o Word of advice: Don't give it.


Sahara Hotel Design To Enhance Phoenix Business District

T H E P H O E N I X S A H A R A . Now under construction, the new Sahara motor hotel will be an impressive and colorful addition to

downtown Phoenix. Sketch above shows First Street entrance, where structure is two stories. East side, on Second Street, will be

four stories. Architect's view below shows courtyard from one of guest rooms. Four-story section at left will be topped by pent

houses.

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Motor Hotels Begun In Arizona, Texas

(Continued from page one) Dining in three rooms at the Sahara

will accommodate 230 persons. A Cas-bah Bar will seat an additional 51, and a conference room with a seating capacity of 80 wil be placed just off the lobby entrance. Parking will be provided for 125 automobiles. The front portion of the structure

will be two stories, graduating into three and then four floors toward the rear. A celebrities penthouse will be furnished with a grand piano, and the penthouse area also will have a honeymoon suite. The Sahara will cater to families

with children, providing family quarters consisting of two adjoining rooms, one a children's room with

furniture scaled down to "small fry" size, including lavatory and other bathroom fixtures. An unusual feature in the children's bathroom will be water control. A special regulator will prevent the bath from overflowing even if the water is left running, and also will automatically moderate the water temperature so there will be no danger of scalding. "There will be a children's play

ground," says Managing Director Robinson, "so that parents can go shopping during the day with assurance their children will be supervised and cared for by an attendant." Eleven modern shops will be placed

on the First Street (front) side of the hotel structure. Architect on the project is Mat

thew E. Trudelle. The Webb Company a few months

ago completed another of the Fla

mingo hostelries, the Bagdad Inn at Las Vegas. Located on the busy Los Angeles-Las Vegas highway in an area known as "The Strip" because of glittering, multi-million doller hotels and gambling casinos, the Bagdad Inn has accommodations for more than 200 guests. It has a large tiled swimming pool, modern restaurant with both counter and table service, spacious lobby, and switchboard telephone service to every room. It's a certainty that men with

plenty of gray matter won't turn out to be Reds.

Usually the man who knows just what should be done expects the other fellow to do it.

He who loses his head is usually the last one to miss it.


"Punky" Believes Hum* Since He Tripped Mi

Anyone want a small "Heine" dog—black, trimmed in brown? There's little doubt that "Punky," the Dale E. Griffith's pooch, could have been "had" pretty cheap the other day. For on April 28, while carrying

a basketful! of washed clothes to the line in her rear yard, Louise Griffith, Dale's wife, stumbled over the dog as she walked across the patio and did not see "Punky" run in front of her. Louise never did fall. But, thrown off balance, she twisted her right leg so severly that it caused a fracture of the leg and an injury to her knee, and promptly sent her to Behren's Memorial Hospital in Glendale. Louise's many friends will be

pleased to hear that the leg injury is healing nicely. But she faces three weeks in the hospital and then, due to the nature of the break, she will be confronted with carrying the leg in a cast at least a month, after which she probably will have to wear a brace and use The Art Of Getting Along Sooner or later, a man, if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take. He learns that it doesn't pay to be a sensitive soul; that he should let some things go over his head like water off a duck's back. H e learns that he who loses his temper usually loses out. H e learns that all men have burnt

toast for breafast now and then, and that he shouldn't take the other fellow's grouch too seriously. He learns that carrying a chip on his shoulder is the easiest way to get into a fight. He learns that the quickest way to become unpopular is to carry tales and gossip about others. H e learns that buck-passing always turns out to be a boomerang, and that it never pays. H e comes to realize that the busi

ness could run along perfectly well without him. He learns that it doesn't matter so much who gets the credit so long as the business shows a profit. H e learns that even the janitor is human and that it doesn't do any harm to smile and say "Good Morning," even if it is raining. H e learns that most of the other fellows are as ambitious as he is, that they have brains that are as good or better, and that hard work and not cleverness is the secret of success. H e learns to sympathize with the youngster coming into the business, because he remembers how bewild-

ns Should Use Radar tress Into Hospital crutches three to four months. But undismayed Louise, always

looking on the bright side, quoted her doctor as saying: "A broken leg very often saves a life." "Hospital life isn't too bad," she

wrote to Phoenix friends. "But I feel so good it seems a crime I have to stay here x x x (but) the opportunity has presented itself to catch up on all those items I've never had the time to do—knitting picture album, recipe book, scrap book, some handicraft and some reading, too." Incidentally, she'll welcome mail,

even postcards. Dale b e l i e v e s Louise "just

couldn't stand prosperity", explaining: "Only the day before her accident she had a new electric range and combination refrigerator-freezer delivered to the house. Needless to say, she hasn't been able to use either." Punky? He refused to say any

thing for publication. He isnt even complaining about

Dale's cooking. Birthdays

John P. Gregg, Phoenix John Meeker, Phoenix F. S. Murray, Phoenix Ralph Reeves, Phoenix George Shaw, Los Angeles... Pearl Richardson, Phoenix... Joe Aubin, San Manuel Cornelius Drinkward, L.A.... David Kauffman, Phoenix....

...June 4

...June 5

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....June 8

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....June 19

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Shows 'Em How! Some of the newer papas around

the Webb Company's Phoenix headquarters may have been having trouble getting boys, but Owen Childress hasn't had any such difficulty. His second boy, Joel David, a bustling 8 V-i -pounder, arrived April 30 at St. Joseph's Hospital to join Stephen, now 2%. Owen's wife, Marie, and the newcomer are reported doing fine.

ered he was when he first started out. He learns not to worry when he loses an order, because experience has shown that if he always gives his best, his average will break pretty well. He learns that no m a n ever got to first base alone, and that it is only through cooperative effort that we move on to better things. He learns that bosses are no monsters, trying to get the last ounce of work out of him for the least amount of pay, but that they are usually fine men who have succeeded through hard work and who want to do the right thing. He learns that folks are not any harder to get along with in one place than another, and that the "getting along" depends about 08 per cent on his own behavior.

Engineer Provides Stadium Rebuilding Construction Data

There was a bit of factual information concerning that Kansas City, Mo. stadium rebuilding job, provided by Fred Kuentz, project manager and job engineer, which space didn't permit carrying last month, but which still should be of interest. So here goes: Seating capacity in the old stadium

of 14,160 was more than doubled, so that Kansas City's new American League park now will seat 30,899, and it was so constructed that 4,000 seats may be added with erection of a lower tier and 7,000 seats with additions to both lower and upper tiers. A total of 429 tons of existing steel

was dismantled and a total of 266 tons of old steel and 1,617 tons of new steel was placed in the new structure.

Five commissaries and one main commissary, and 12 concessions stands were built into the stadium, four rest rooms for men and four for women, offices for the ball club and municipal personnel (the city owns the stadium), and a total of 40 ticket windows. Nine hundred fifty lights of 1,500

watts each give an infield lighting average measuiement of 220-foot candles and the outfield average of 130 foot candles. Total cost per seat, based on new

construction costs, was $80.46. There were 16,739 new chairs in

stalled, which required 18,873 standards. 24,830 lead expansion anchors, 13.350 welding studs, 167,136 aluminum step bolts, 205,136 lock washers, 104,702 flat washers, 205,136 hex nuts and 12,000 pounds of hardware. Seven railroad cars and eight truck loads were required to deliver the material. And just 129 working days after

the project was started, the big stadium was jammed to capacity for the first ball game of the Kansas City Athletics.

There is no way to raise the standard of living except by increasing man's output on production. That depends on better skill, better methods, and better tools. H o w can Government control make any of these better? —Samuel B. Pettengill. You have to get out of the crowd to do something unusual. Go along the street any day and see how easy it is to move along with the rest. Nobody bothers you; nobody takes any notice of you. But the moment you try to speed up and get ahead of the crowd, people begin to pay attention, and make way for you.

—De-Ce-Co. When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did il, but all that had gone before.

—Jacob A. Riis, 1849-1914.


These New-Fangled Devices Are Rough On Housewives

Anyone who knows Rosanne McLain, a former Webb Company secretary, knows she is, to say the least, ambitious and enterprising. (Inquisitive, too. She stuck the end of her tongue into a cold bottle of Coke once, and it was necessary to break the bottle, and thus break the vacuum she had created, to free her). Anyway, when her washing machine recently went

on the blink, Rosanne decided it wasn't necessary to call the repairman whom she had watched work on it several times previously. She unscrewed the top, lifted and set it at what looked like a safe angle against the wall, and reached in with both arms to try to fish out some small article of clothing she decided had clogged the machine so the washbasket and activator didn't work properly. She had to push the washbasket off center to search

around it. She was "in" the machine with both arms up to her shoulders when the washbasket—horrors!— slipped back into place, pinning her to the washing machine sides as securely as if she had been handcuffed or manacled to the inside. She tried to pull out her arms, and jarred the top

of the machine standing against the wall above her head. It fell neatly over her head as though it was a picture frame. And there she was, both arms pinned inside the idle machine, with its top around her neck and resting on her shoulders.

Her husband was 150 miles away, in San Manuel, and wasn't due home until late the next day. Two of her three daughters, the eldest 3)4, were playing in the house, and her infant daughter had just been placed in a stroller in the back yard to soak up some sunshine. So, Rosanne admitted later, she spent the first half

hour or so shouting for help until she grew hoarse. But she always had wanted a home that wasn't jammed right up against her neighbors, and now the neighbors were too far away to hear. She summoned Susan, the three-

year-old, and told her to run next door and get the neighbor woman to help her Mommy. Susan began to cry. Rosanne kidded away her tears, only to discover that Susan then had decided her mother was playing some kind of game. But finally she was persuaded to go after a neighbor. Then Rosanne heard Pamela Ann,

18 months old, follow her sister outside, once Susan had unlocked the screened door. The frantic and helpless mother had visions of Pamela wandering into the street in front of their home where she might be seen too late by a passing motorist. So Rosanne succeeded in calling

Susan back, and persuaded her to get Pamela back into the house. Then, joking and talking with Pamela, (and it wasn't easy while pinned down with her face and head almost inside the top of the washing machine), Rosanne kept the 18-month-old occupied while Susan strolled over to the neighbor's house. She came back some time later to

say the neighbor woman wouldn't pay any attention to her. Rosanne pleaded with her to go back, get a rock, and break a window or a pane in the door of the neighbor's house, figuring the neighbor surely would bring Susan home in that event. This time Susan came back to say the neighbor woman had told her to quit knocking on her door, then sent

her home. By that time the baby, Jeri Lynn, was crying at the top of her lungs in the back yard, and Pamela was trying to get outside again. Rosanne was doing some crying herself. In desperation, she sent Susan this

time to fetch a young neighbor boy, about four years old, with whom Susan frequently played. Susan was gone quite a while, but finally came back with Joey, and it didn't take four-year-old Joey long to decide something was wrong with what he saw. He went back home and got the housekeeper, and wouldn't take no for an answer until she accompanied him.

So, almost two hours after she first was trapped by the washing machine, Rosanne was freed. A simple push on the washbasket, to force it out of position, and she could withdraw two sore arms, straighten up for the first time in what seemed like an age, and begin nursing a sore chin with which she had kept trying to lift the washing machine top upward and off her neck and shoulders. Know what had worried her when she wasn't worrying about the kids and about how to get out? That it might be necessary to call the fire department to get her free —and she hadn't "put up" her hair that morning. Know what her husband said when

he got home and heard about it? Gosh, what a picture that would have made for the newspaper!

Webb Co. Golfers Gain Victory To Open Summer Play Those Webb Company golfers from

Phoenix office are at it again. They've entered the Sunflower Twi

light Golf League, and the first time out they collected seven of a possible nine points to wind up deadlocked with State Tax Commission for second place in the six-team loop, only a point behind league-leading Valley Bank. Tom Mulkern chalked up a net

32 while the Webb crew was downing Motorola, and Johnny Meeker had a low gr8ss score of 39. Other members of the team are

Milford Rigg, George Grantham, John Morton and Blackie Hoeft. Besides the tax commission, Motor

ola, and bank teams, the Webb shot-makers will compete with Cotter Too] Co. and Western States Mortgage. All play is on the Encanto public links. The twilight organization consists of nine leagues of 54 teams and 300 players. The Webb crew is competing for the seventh consecutive summer. Play continues until mid-July.

He who stands high in his own estimation is still a long way from the top. A government expert is one who

can greatly complicate simplicity.


DIRECTORY

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Del E. Webb, President L. C, Jacobson, Executive Vice President and General Manager

R. A. Becker, Secretary T. F. Hetherington, Jr,, Assistant Secretary

PHOENIX MAIN OFFICE 302 South 23rd Avenue, P.O. Box 4066, Phoenix, Arizona, Phone ALpine 8-7441


Amy Jo Hafford Kara C. Newell

H. G. Winston P. G. Marks J. L. Morton J. P. McLain Roaa M. Kort G. G. Grantham Rose Romano D. L. Kauffman Emma Marie Miller

Pearl S. Richardson Florence Olson T. P. Mulkern L. O. Hoeft Gladys Sanders Mary P. Moss

Kim Bannister F. S. Murray A. C. Jacobson, Sr. E. W. Flint Alice Murdoch T. E. Breen O. F. Childress Bobby Spaulding Lorraine Greager Geraldine Hampton J. W. Meeker Evelyn Martin

LOS ANGELES DISTRICT OFFICE 5101 San Fernando Road W., Los Angeles 39. Phone CHapman 5-2616

R. H. Johnson, Vice President and District Manager E. T. Davies, Chief of Operations D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager C. H. Dean R. C. Hinton Enola Owens M. F. Chambers E. H. Smith, Jr. Ralph Wanless F. O. Langell Alice Stears G. A. Anderson F. W. Danielson M. F. Webb Beverly Otten

Martha Little S. A. Grubbs E. B. York CENTRAL LOS ANGELES OFFICE 615 South Commonwealth Ave. Los Angeles, Calif. Phone DUnkirk 9-3631 G. A. Murray, Job Superintenden; W. R, Foeht, Job Office Manager

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS OFFICE 1131 Austin Highway San Antonio, Texas W. A. Warriner, Project Manager

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI OFFICE Webb-Winn Senter Construction Co. 2128 Brooklyn Kansas City 27, Mo. Phone BEnton 8781 W. A. Row, Job Superintendent F. P. Kuentz, Job Engineer R. L. Reeves, Job Office Manager W. A. Slaughter, Job Accountant

SAN DIEGO, CALIF., OFFICE P.O. Box 9396 4724 Hidalgo Ave. San Diego 9, Calif. Phone BRoadway 3-6234 J. N. McPhee. Job Superintenden; T. L, Rittenhouse. Job Engineer P. D. Clouthier. Job Office Manager W. C. Edmundson, Job Accountant

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF., OFFICE 9973 Santa Monica Blvd. Beverly Hills, Calif. Phone BRadshaw 2-8153 J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer C. F. Kintzi. Job Office Manager

TUCSON, ARIZONA OFFICE P.O. Box 7245, South Tucson Station Tucson, Arizona Phone 3-4002 E. J. Guinn, Job Office Manager

EL PASO, TEXAS OFFICE P.O. Box 5097 6101-17 Montana St. El Paso, Texas F. E. Warren, Job Superintendent R. T. White, Job Office Manager

NORTHWEST PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE 19th Ave. and Thomas Rd. Phoenix, Arizona R. G. Fleming, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

NORTHEAST PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE Central Ave. and Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona F. L. McDowell, Job Superintendent M. T. Rigg, Job Office Manager

Ethel Can't Outdo Ed! Friends and fellow employees will

be pleased to learn that Ethel Smith, wife of Edwin H. Smith of the Los Angeles estimating department has returned home from Benren's Memorial Hospital in Glendale, Calif., after a recent operation on her spine. Everyone wishes her a speedy and complete recovery from a most painful experience. And Husband Ed probably agrees with that old adage about trouble coming in bunches, like bananas. Ed himself was hospitalized for an operation just prior to Ethel's sojourn. He returned to work May 9 after spending approximately two weeks in Ihe hospital and convalescing at home.

Ernie Griffith Overseas Ernie Griffith, son of Dale Grif

fith of the Los Angeles office, and Louise Griffith, is on his way to seeing the world with the U.S. Air Force. Ernie arrived in England this month, and expects to be stationed near London once he gets out of a typical military travel snafu. An avid camera bug, Ernie wrote his parents that he recently spent a day in and around London, and took a number of "shots" of Windsor and Buckingham Palaces, including photos of the "changing of the guard." Ernie is hoping his recent bride, Dolores, now residing in Colorado Springs where he formerly was stationed at Fort Carson, soon may be able to join him overseas.


DEL E. W E B B CONSTRUCTION CO. Main Office, South 23rd Ave,







Kara Caroline <Casey) Newel] Member



Industrial Editors Lambie Gets Pro Job

Tom Lambie, former Phoenix office employee of the Webb Company, a star amateur golfer who has hit the professional trail, recently signed on as assistant to Johnny Bulla at the Westmoreland Country Club in Export, Penn. Tom is polishing his game, learning to teach, and picking up valuable experience before tackling the tough tournament competition which takes the pros on a winter tour of the nation.

Some Wild Notions None of us is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can serve as horrible examples. The fellow who says "What's the

use," is not the locomotive; he's just the caboose. The number of people who can't

write, but do, is amazing. Even though we may not be in

"Who's Who," we should know What's What. It is less dangerous to slip with the

foot than with the tongue. One of the hardest secrets for a

man to keep without telling is his opinion of himself. Of all things you wear, your ex

pression is the most important. The bigger a man's head gets, the

easier it is to fill his shoes. The head never begins to swell

until the mind stops growing. The average man's idea of an in

telligent friend is one who always agrees with him. The weaker the argument the

stronger the words. With the increase in airplane

travel, we wonder how long it will be until somebody figures out how to stick billboards on clouds. Take it easy, fellow. Remember that

the whale gets into trouble only when he starts blowing.

Vol.9, No. 6 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, JUNE, 1955 Eight Pages

Motor Hotel Project Slated At Santa Anita Motor hotel construction by the Webb Company extended this month into Southern California as plans were announced for a new hostelry near famed Santa Anita racetrack at Arcadia, Calif. Containing an estimated 150 units,

swimnrng pool, restaurant, cocktail lounge and some small shops, the motor hotel will be built for the Flamingo Hotel chain, but like others now under construction in Phoenix, San Antonio and El Paso, Tex., it will be jointly owned and operated by officials of the Webb Company. The Arcadia motel will be located

directly across Huntington Drive to the south from Santa Anita, at the intersection of Huntington Drive and Colorado street. These are main thoroughfares from the east into Pasadena, San Marino and Los Angeles.

Its location is about five miles from Pasadena and about 17 miles from downtown Los Angeles, which can speedily be reached via a freeway. The site is a picturesque part of Southern California, and Santa Anita annually is the mecca for hundreds of thousands of tourists and visitors. The over-all project is expected to

represent a $1,500,000 investment. Preliminary planning calls for a

country club-type design, with an attractive inner patio court, artistic landscaping, and ample, handy parking space for all guests. A large private dining room will adjoin a coffee shop, and the office will be set in a large lobby which will provide a restful spot for guests to read or view television programs. Because of its proximity to Santa

Anita, guests who are horse racing enthusiasts may walk instead of drive to the track. Dependent upon completion of

architectural planning, it is hoped to have the first units ready for occupancy by Dec. 1.

o Wouldn't it be terrible if we were born old, and had to look forward to growing young, green, and silly?

OUT OF THE GROUND comes construction work on the new Sahara Motor Hotel being erected in downtown Phoenix by Webb Company construction crews. Backdrop is the heart of the capital city's business district. Covering a square block, the 200-room hostelry will be opened next winter.

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The Heat Was On! Phoenix had enjoyed some really

pleasant summer weather up to mid-June, with only a few days to remind the natives that some really H O T weather was ahead. May was unusually moderate when it came to heat, and rains cooled things off a bit the second week in June. But before that there were several days when Old Sol really beamed, for on June 9 Milford Rigg, office manager on the Sahara Hotel job, stepped outside his office in mid-afternoon and took a long look at the thermometer. It registered 121—that's right, 121— and it wasn't kidding.

o The trouble with many people in

trying times is that they stop trying.

THE WEBB SPINNER June, 1955

Webb Company Golfers Play In Fast Company .............im

T H E C H A M P S . Just about as hot as the weather (and it was hot), these W e b b Company Phoenix golfers romped to the first-

halt championship of the Sunflower Twilight Golf League in mid-June, then set their sights on the league championship. They

are, from left, Blackie Hoeft, George Grantham, Tom Mulkern, Johnny Meeker, Milford Rigg and Johnny Morton. One of their

winning matches was played on an afternoon when the temperature in Phoenix shot up to 112, and that was in the shade, man.

Rigg got a thermometer reading outside his job office that afternoon of 121; in the sun, that is.

G O L F I N G CELEBRITIES. Ready to tee off in the opening round of last month's Greenbrier Pro-Amateur Tournament were these

four participants: Del E. W e b b , co-owner of the New York Yankees; Winston Guest, Palm Beach and N e w York socialite;

Peter Thomson of Australia, British Open titlist, and Fred Folhaber of N e w York.— (Associated Press Wirephoto).

June, 1955 THE WEBB SPINNER Page 3

It Was The Perennial Question.

W H A T O F T H E FUTURE? The annual spring management meeting tor officials of the Del E. W e b b Construction Co. recently

found them gathered at Phoenix for a serious and searching analysis of their firm's operations, and looking as usual for the

answer to the perennial question: What lies ahead for the construction industry? Photo above shows W e b b Company top man

agement discussing hotel-motel construction now being carried on in three Pacific-Southwest states. They are, from left:

Robert A. Becker, secretary-treasurer; Robert H. Johnson, manager, Los Angeles office; J. R. Ashton, manager, Phoenix office;

Pres. Del E. W e b b , and L. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president and general manager. Bottom photo shows group gathered for

a discussion of company operations, including, from left, (seated), Mr. Becker, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Ashton, Mr. W e b b , Mr.

Jacobson; E. T. Davies, chief of operations, Los Angeles; W . J. Miller, business manager; from left (standing), George Grantham,

assistant secretary; T, L. Hetherington, company attorney; Dale Griffith, assistant business manager, and H. E. Boice, chief of

operations, Phoenix.


These New Motor Hotels Are Under Construction In Texas Cities

EL PASO

FLAMINGO EL P A S O F L A M I N G O , part of which is pictured in architectural rendering above, now is under construction in the Texas

border city. It will have about 120 units, a coffee shop, attractive lobby, modern swimming pool and artistic landscaping.

Modernistic in design, the motel will feature large glass areas in its lobby and coffee shop, as well as in its rooms. Directing

construction for the W e b b Company is Frank E. Warren, who superintended building last year of the new Bagdad Hotel in

Las Vegas, Nev.

S A N A N T O N I O F L A M I N G O , pictured in architectural rendering above, will have about 100 units and will offer guests easy

access to automobile parking area, an attractive swimming pool, coffee shop and lobby where they may rest, read and watch

television programs. Construction is in charge of W . A. Warriner, manager of job operations. Both the San Antonio and El

Paso motels, as well as the new Sahara at Phoenix and another planned for Arcadia, Calif., will be jointly owned and operated

by officials of the Flamingo Hotel chain and of »he W e b b Company. They are to be finished and In operation this winter.


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M O D E R N IN EVERY DETAIL. Color, and a newly-designed kitchen heralded as the "heart of the home" are features of a large-

scale project of new residences on which the W e b b Company has started construction in Camelback Village. The site is in North

west Phoenix, between Camelback and Bethany H o m e roads and west of Seventh Avenue, on some of the most desirable resi

dential property in the Arizona capital city. The three-bedroom, bath and three-quarters homes will sell for $12,200 to $14,250.

The new-style "kitchen center" features a combination washer-dryer, dishwasher, disposal, sink, oven and range all in one com

pact unit topped with stainless steel and in a variety of colors. Seventy homes are planned in the first unit of a project to embrace

400 to 500 dwellings, with sufficient land available to the builders for a potential 1,000-homes development. Architect's sketches

above and below show two of the half-dozen styles of homes to be offered.


Lost Week-End? You Should Hear!

Martha Little And Hubby Set Out To See Nevada, And Then Their Troubles Began For many of the Webb Company folks the recent Memorial Day week-end

which offered an opportunity for three days of uninterrupted relaxation may provide only pleasant memories, but for Martha Little of the Los Angeles office and her husband, Howard, it was a "lost week-end" they would love to forget. They had high hopes of seeing

Lake Tahoe and much of the state of Nevada <not across the gaming tables at Las Vegas), and set out from Los Angeles with camping equipment and light hearts. After one night of camping and four days of sittin', waitin' and hopin', they arrived back home with heavy hearts and a very empty pocketbook. But here's the sad story, as Martha tells it: "After spending a few hours in Las

Vegas on Friday, we camped that night beyond Beatty, Nev. Saturday afternoon, halfway between Tonopah and Austin, Nev., the car stopped. Inspection revealed that a leak had developed in the hydromatic and all the fluid was gone and the unit burned out! "Fortunately we were near a ranch

and the people called for towing service. W e were towed 42 miles into Austin, a mining community of 200 people, one mechanic with no tools and no parts for hydromatics. On Sunday we did see the uranium mines there in Austin, and they look good and we hope our uranium stock will at least pay for our week-end trip. "Since no car repair help was pos

sible in Austin, we were T O W E D on Sunday afternoon another 112 miles to Fallon, Nev., and presented a tow bill of $80 (they earned every cent of it). "Monday, being a holiday, we could

get no repair services, but on Tuesday they obtained another hydromatic unit from Reno by noon, and by working all afternoon had the car ready to roll by 6 o'clock Tuesday evening. "THEN came the final blow. The

garage owner would not accept our personal check. The banks were closed for the day and it looked like we were stuck there overnight until the banks opened on Wednesday. Well I finally convinced the garage owner he could check my identity by calling Webb Company men whom I knew were bidding a job at that time in Reno. "He telephoned, and Ed Smith must

have said something good and convincing, for the man accepted my check and we fairly flew back to Los Angeles. Boy, there really is no place like HOME!!"

Webb Co. Disposes Of San Manuel Weekly Paper The Webb Company is scheduled

to step out of the weekly newspaper publishing business July 1 with sale of the San Manuel Miner to H. H. Wrenn, Coolidge, Ariz., newspaper publisher. The miner was established in

December, 1953, soon after the Webb Company began construction of the new copper city of San Manuel in Southeastern Arizona. It grew in 18 months to become one of Arizona's top weekly newspapers, and in 1954 was adjudged third best among the state's weeklies. Jerry McLain, who while serving

as editor and publisher of the Miner won the Arizona Press Club's best-story award for 1954, will return to his duties as public relations director for the Webb Company and editor of its monthly Webb Spinner.

When asked what was his greatest ambition, a small boy replied, "I think it is to take mother away from the dinner table and wash her face."

Birthdays The Webb Spinner extends greet

ings and best wishes to the following employees who observe birthday anniversaries during July: Martha Little, Los Angeles....July 9 Kim Bannister, Phoenix July 11 Cecil Kintzi, Beverly Hills July 12 Lorraine Greager, Phoenix ....July 15 Beverly Otten, Los Angeles ....July 17 Robert T. White,

El Paso, Tex July 20 Robert A. Becker, Phoenix ...July 21 Florence Olson, Phoenix July 28

o

Becker, Boice Beat Furgol Bob Becker and Howard Boice of

the Phoenix office were among Arizona shotmakers who on National Golf Day defeated National Open Champ Ed Furgol. All proceeds from the day's program go to the Red Cross. Becker and Boice were among 222 entrants at Phoenix Country Club and, with his handicap, genial Bob was tied at that club with Harold Hughes for the low net of 66. Boice came in with a net 69 and was right up among the leaders. Champ Furgol shot a two-over-par 72 at the Olympic Club near San Francisco, where the U.S. Open was played later in the month.

That Fella Warriner Hankers To Manage Again They've been looking for a city

manager in San Antonio, Tex., and if it hadn't been for the fact that our Willie Warriner is busy directing construction of a new Flamingo motor hotel there, he might have dropped in at City Hall to give 'em a hand. For Bill Warriner hasn't been long out of San Manuel, where he was city manager, unofficial mayor, and the man to whom everyone told their troubles for more than a year.

Man Wanted! Wanted: A man for hard work and

rapid promotion; a man who can find things to be done without the help of a manager and three assistants. A man who gets to work on time

in the morning and does not imperil the lives of others in an attempt to be first out of the office at night. A man who moves quickly and

makes as little noise as possible about it. A man who looks you straight in

the eye and tells the truth every time. A man who does not pity himself

for having to work. A man who is neat in appearance. A man who does not sulk for an

hour's overtime in emergencies. A man who is cheerful, courteous to

everyone, and determined to make good. This man is wanted everywhere.

Age or lack of experience does not count. There isn't any limit, except his own ambition, to the number or size of the jobs he can get. He is wanted in every business. —Industrial Management Bulletin.

o Inviting a friend to his wedding an

niversary, an Irishman explained: "We're on the 7th floor, Apt. D. Just touch the button with your elbow." "And why should I use my elbow?" "Well, for heaven's sake! said the

exasperated Irishman. "You're not coming empty-handed, are you?"

A drunk was crawling around on his hands and knees at 3 a.m. when a cop asked him what he was looking for. "Lookin' for a pal o' mine," drooled the drunk. "Why don't you stand up and look

for him?" inquired the cop. "I'm afraid I'll miss him that way.

He's much shorter than I am." An employer was severly repri

manding a meek employee. "Mr. Jones, I understand you've been going over my head," stated the employer. "Not that I know of, sir," ventured

the meek employee. "Isn't it true that you been pray

ing for a raise?" asked the employer. "Theeze 4 lines Wot look so kweer

R just sot down 2 fill up here."


Negotiators ust Have

Patience Of Job (Editor's Note: Affable Business

Mgr. Jim Miller is the Webb Company's representative in periodical negotiations between management and labor in the construction industry. He and almost a dozen other management representatives, including m e n from the Associated General Contractors, this month successfully concluded weeks of patient negotiations with the five basic crafts—laborers, carpenters, teamsters, operating engineers and cement masons — and came up with a new four-year contract. Following are some interesting views of Roger Lewis, Arizona Republic staff writer, concerning the negotiations).

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Ask a negotiator and he'll tell you the job takes a lot out of you. Throats get dry from passing thous

ands of words. Brains weary of statistics and arguments. Stomachs tighten up like fists from emotions. While the hours pass by at the

negotiating table, business and union affairs pile up back at the office. Wives feel like widows and children like orphans, and watch their lawns grow tall and weedy. M e n on both sides of the table

aren't just bucking pressure from the men opposite them. They are under heavy and varying pressure from the people they represent—employers and union members. And they are concerned, too, with

the general overall health of the industry. That means the buying public is involved.

The days of table banging, shouting sessions are waning. Some, of course, still goes on and probably always will. But today's negotiators usually enter conference rooms with fists wrapped around brief cases. The cases contain vital statistics designed to show either w h y such and such things should be granted or why they cannot be. Usually, a new contract is arrived

at without a work stoppage. The peaceful signings normally don't make the headlines though. But with or without a strike, if

both sides are strong, there must come a time when there's a meeting of minds and agreement reached on a new contract.

Burglar With Telephonitis A thief or thieves with a penchant

for telephones has been plaguing the W e b b Company's Uptown Plaza shopping center project in North Phoenix. Twice within a few days the m e n arrived to begin work in the morning and found the telephone had been stolen out of the office by a thief who simply cut the wires. But what would he want with T W O phones?

MARRIAGE V O W S were spoken in Las Vegas, Nev., on June 4 for Gen. Mgr. L. C. (Jake) Jacobson of the Webb Company and Mrs. Maggie Rosenzweig of Phoenix, and best man at the ceremony was Jake's business partner, Contractor Del E. Webb. Pictured above, cutting the wedding cake, Mr. Webb lends a helping hand to the bride while Jake and the matron of honor, Mrs. K. D. Berdan, smile approval. Pictured below are the principals, Mrs. Berdan, the newlyweds, and Mr. Webb, at a champagne party following the ceremony at the Las Vegas home of the Milton Prells. After honeymooning during June at Carmel, the Jacobsons will make their home in Phoenix.


DIRECTORY-m r wir

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Del E. Webb. President L. C. Jacobson, Executive Vice President and General Manager

R. A. Becker. Secretary T. F. Hetherington, Jr., Assistant Secretary

PHOENIX MAIN OFFICE 301i South 23rd Avenue, P.O. Box 4066, Phoenix, Arizona, Phone ALpine 8-7441


Kim Bannister F, S. Murray A. C. Jacobson. Sr. E. \V. Flint T. E. Breen O. F. Children J. W. Meeker Bobby Spaulding Lorraine Greagei' Geraldine Hampton Alice Murdoch Evelyn Martin

H. G. Winston P. G. Marks J. L. Morton J. P. McLain Rosa M. Kort G. G. Grantham Ro.se Romano D. L. Kauffman Emma Marie Millei

Amy Jo Hafford Kara C. Newell Pearl S. Richardson Florence Olson T. P. Mulkern L. O. Hoeft Gladys Sanders Mary P. Moss


R. H. Johnson, Vice President and District Manager E. T. Davies, Chief of Operations D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager C. ri. Dean R. C. Hintor. Enola Owens M. F. Chambers E. H. Smith, Jr. Ralph Wanle=- F. O. Langell Alice Stears G. A. Anderson F. W. Danielsor. M. F. Webb Beverly Otten

Martha Little S. A. Grubbs E. B. York

CENTRAL LOS ANGELES OFFICE 6 1 5 South Commonwealth Ave. Los Angeles. Calif. Phone DUnkirk 9-3631 G. A. Murray, Job Superintendem W. R. Foeht, Job Office Manager

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS OFFICE 1131 Austin Highway San Antonio, Texas W. A. Warriner, Mgr. of Job. Operations

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI OFFICE Wehb-Winn Senter Construction Co. 2128 Brooklyn Kansas City 27, Mo. F. P. Kuentz. Job Engineer

SAN DIEGO, CALIF., OFFICE P.O. Box 9396 4724 Hidalgo Ave. San Diego 9, Calif. Phone BRoadway 3-6234 J. N. McPhee, Job Superintenden; T. L. Rittenhouse, Job Engineer P. D. Clouthier, Job Office Manager W. C. Edmundson, Job Accountant

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF., OFFICE 9973 Santa Monica Blvd. Beverly Hills, Calif. Phone BRadshaw 2-8153 J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer C. F. Kintzi. Job Office Manager

TUCSON. ARIZONA OFFICE P.O. Box 7245, South Tucson Station Tucson, Arizona Phone 3-4002 R. L. Reeves, Job Office Manager

EL PASO, TEXAS OFFICE P.O. Box 5097 0101-17 Montana St. El Paso, Texas F. E. Warren, Job Superintendent R. T. White, Job Office Manager

NORTHWEST PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE 19th Ave. and Thomas Rd. Phoenix, Arizona R. G. Fleming, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

NORTHEAST PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE Central Ave. and Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona F. L. McDowell, Job Superintendent M. T. Rigg, Job Office Manager Hotel Opening In Instanbul Is Gay Affair

While work of Webb Company crews progressed steadily this month on the swank Beverly Hilton hostelry in Beverly Hills, Calif., Owner Conrad Hilton was busy planning a new $4,500,000 Hilton Hotel in West Berlin, and formally opening the new In-stanbul-Hilton in Instanbul, Turkey. Some idea of the pomp and cere

mony which probably will attend the opening of the palacial Beverly Hills hotel in August could be gleaned from the affair held in Instanbul. It was a five-day party, and among

Hilton's guests were Irene Dunne, Dr. Francis Griffin, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Miller, Roland Petit, Merle Ober-on, Dr. Rex Ross, Mary Martin, Terry

Moore, Diana Lynn, Sonja Henie, King Kennedy, Keefe Brasselle, Lou-ella O. Parsons and others. The formal opening was followed

by a ball sponsored by the president of Turkey for the benefit of the Turkish Red Crescent, a boat trip up the Bosphorus and luncheon at Beylerby Palace in Asia, an old palace once occupied by the sultans.

o The reason why so many people

cannot make both ends meet is that they try to take in too much territory. Some men are born great, some

achieve greatness, and some just gralo you.


DEL E. W E B B CONSTRUCTION CO. Main Office. South 23rd Ave.







Kara Caroline (Casey) Nevv'ell Member



Industrial Editors Ed Should Own Hospital You may recall reading last month

how Ed Smith of the Los Angeles office hadn't any more than got out of the hospital himself when his wife, Ethel, had to be hospitalized for an operation on her spine. Well, Ed certainly must be a great believer in hospital insurance. Mrs. Smith hardly seemed settled down at home when their daughter. Beverly, had to trek to the hospital for an appendectomy.

Some Wild Notions There is no doubt this being a land of promise—when we hear the candidates who are seeking the votes of the people. Income has been described as some

thing you cannot live without or within. An elevator operator grew weary

of constantly being asked the time of the day, so he hung a clock in his cage. N o w everybody asks him, "Is that clock right?" W h e n asked to describe steel wool,

a freshman in an engineering class said he thought it was the fleece of an hydraulic ram. A wife with horse sense never be

comes a nag. It is just a waste of time to tell a

hair-raising story to a bald-headed man. A small town is the place where

one always looks around to see if anyone is related to the fellow about w h o m he is about to make an unkind remark. Diplomacy has been defined as the art of letting someone else have your way. Common sense is getting so scare that it should be classed as uncommon.

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Vol. 9, No. 7 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, JULY, 1955 Eight Pages

Webb Company To Build New $20,000,000 Union Oil Headquarters In Los Angeles

Height-Limit Office Building On Five-Acre Site Will Be Highest Structure In Coast Metropolis The Del E. Webb Construction Co.

has been selected to erect immediately a $20,000,000 building project for Union Oil Company of California, embracing a height-limit home office building and three auxiliary office and service units at Union Oil Center, which will overlook downtown Los Angeles.

Ground will be broken early in August on a block-square site already

cleared of more than a score of apartment buildings and large residences which for years have been clustered on the edge of the Los Angeles downtown district.

Negotiations for construction of the huge Union Oil Center were completed some months ago between officials of the petroleum firm and the Webb Company, and announcement of the project by Pres. Reese H. Taylor

of Union Oil came upon delivery of architectural plans by Pereira & Luck-


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OVERLOOKING DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES, new $20,000,000 Union Oil Center will feature a 13-story, diamond-shaped office building which will be the highest structure in the city.

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Four Harmonizing Buildings; 1,500-Car Garage Planned At Union Oil Center Structures comprising the new Union Oil Center will be known as the Home Office Building, Fifth Street Building, Maryland Building and Beaudry

Building.

The Home Office Building, towering 175 feet above ground level, will provide 19,000 square feet of office space on each of its upper 12 floors. The lobby level can be entered from all sides, and a beautifully-landscaped central patio is planned. Trees will be planted profusely through the Center, and a mezzanine level will have covered bridges for access to the various other buildings.

A vehicular tunnel from Beaudry Street will permit convenient access to the three parking levels which may also be reached by wide ramps from Bixel, Maryland and Fifth Streets. The tunnel entrance will make it possible for shipping and receiving docks to be maintained underground. The parking structure is designed on a "scissors" principle to facilitate self-parking.

Exterior of the height-limit building will be of either marble, granite or terra cotta, with window areas protected from direct sun and glare by vertical aluminum fins and horizontal aluminum louvers. This "solar control" will eliminate the need for draperies or other types of inside shading.

The Fifth Street Building will be three stories high, connecting with the Home Office Building at both the mezzanine and lobby levels. It will contain 55,000 square feet of office area, with provision for three additional stories. This building will be occupied by Brea Chemicals, a Union Oil subsidiary, and a branch of the Security First National Bank.

The Maryland Building will be an elevated two-story structure containing 37,000 square feet of office area, with provision for three additional stories. This unit, connected to the Home Office Building at the mezzanine level, will be occupied by Union's southwest territory marketing personnel.

The Beaudry Building, to be connected to the main office building by two pedestrian bridges across Boyl-ston Street, will be a two-story unit containing an auditorium seating 500 persons, a cafeteria and an employees' lounge. The oil company plans to make the auditorium available for group or other types of suitable meetings.

Johnson Kenson

WEBB CO. OFFICIALS headed by Pres. Del E. Webb contracted to build the new Union Oil Center in Los Angeles after lengthy negotiations with officials of the petroleum firm, headed by Pres. Reese H. Taylor. Although a number of Webb executives figured in the negotiations, leading roles were taken by Mr. Webb, L. C. Jacob-son, executive vice-president and general manager; R. H. Johnson, manager of the Los Angeles headquarters, and R. G. Kenson, administrative assistant fo Webb and Jacob-son. The project will be directed by the company's Los Angeles personnel. Still Grow 'Em Tall In Texas

W e heard from Bill Warriner down San Antonio way the other day, and he sent this report on two Texas ranchers who wandered into a Cadillac agency. After picking out the biggest and best in the place, one rancher decided it was a bargain at $10,000, so pulled out a roll of bills and started to peel off a few. "Oh no you don't!" exclaimed the other rancher as he grabbed the bill of sale. "You got lunch."

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man. Los Angeles achitectural-engin-eering firm.

The five-acre Union Oil Center will rise just west of Harbor Freeway in downtown Los Angeles, and will be bounded by Fifth, Maryland, Bixel and Beaudry Streets.

It will give the West Coast metropolis a "new look" for, because of its location on a hill, the unique diamond-shaped 13-story home office building will be the highest structure in the city, towering even above the gigantic Los Angeles City

Hall. Four harmonizing buildings will

provide a total of 1,000,000 square feet of floor area, including a three-level underground parking garage for 1,500 cars. And, for future expansion, founda

tions will be put in for a second height-limit building connecting with the initial home office unit.

Banks of escalators operating from the lowest level of the underground garage to the seventh floor of the home office building will be supplemented by express elevators for the upper levels as well as serving the entire building.

Orientation of the major building is contrary to the usual placement, according to the architects. By orienting the building to the east and west and using the diamond design the problem of the sun at quarter points is overcome. The diamond shape also permits private offices around the periphery while allowing general office spaces to have open areas in the center.

Center's Pilings Require 100 Carloads Of Steel So massive is the new Union Oil

project in Los Angeles that 100 carloads of steel will be required for the pilings alone. Much of this steel already is stockpiled on the site.

The steel pilings will be driven to bedrock to support the project, which will tower over the central business district.

Oil company officials said the block-square site was chosen after careful analysis of several other prospective locations. One of the principal reasons for its selection was the fact that the site is located within one-half mile of the geographical center of the company's employee population.

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LOS ANGELES' SKYLINE will have a drastic and spectacular new look when the modernistic new Union Oil Center is completed by the Webb Company early in 1957. Pictured above in artist's conception, it will be structurally designed to permit helicopter operations from its roof. The buildings will cover a five-acre site in downtown Los Angeles bounded by Fifth, Maryland, Bixel and Beaudry streets. This view looks north from Fifth Street, showing the auditorium and employees' building at right, home office in center, and Fifth Street building tor company's sales organization. Similar building for firm's Brea Chemicals unit will face on Maryland. Street at extreme right is Beaudry. Inner street is Boylston, which will be spanned by two pedestrian bridges. Parking will be provided for 1,500 cars in a three-level garage, and the Center will be beautifully landscaped.

Pretentious Opening Ceremonies Scheduled At Luxurious Beverly Hilton Hotel While finishing touches were being

applied late this month to the luxurious, ultra-modern, $17,000,000 Beverly Hilton Hotel by Webb Company crews as busy as beavers, plans progressed for probably the most spectacular opening ceremonies in U.S. hotel history.

The artistically and architecturally elegant showplace which occupies an eight-acre triangular site on world-famous Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, Calif., will be opened to the public on Friday afternoon, August 12.

But over a period of almost a week previous to that some hundreds of invifed guests from over the nation will be wined and dined and shown the wonders of the sumptuous eight-story hotel which today is the pride of Conrad Hilton, internationally-

known hotel man.

Joining Hilton as a host at many of the glamorous opening events will be Del E. Webb, whose con

struction firm built the famed hostelry. And the contractors future Los Angeles residence will be one of the most attractive suites in the Beverly Hilton.

Guests will begin taking up residence in the hotel August 4 and 5, and opening ceremonies begin Saturday, August 6, when some 30 to 40 guests are invited to inspect the Red Lion Bar, a recreation of an historic 11th century English pub resembling the ancient Bell Tavern of Hurley, England, and complete to a red brick floor and huge eight-foot-wide stone fireplace.

About 60 guests are due from the East by plane on Sunday, August 7, and next day will attend a press tour to inaugurate the Star on the Roof cocktail lounge, be hosted at a reception in the grand ballroom suite and preview Trader Vic's restaurant, adjacent to the hotel.

The first of two formal dinners is slated at the hotel Tuesday night, Aug

ust 9, with about 400 guests gathering for a gala preview opening of the Bali Room, the pretentious supper club. The affair will be a benefit for St. John's Hospital, and at $125 per person the guests should contribute about-$50,000.

Wednesday, August 10, will see flag raising ceremonies at 11 a.m. to be attended by 400 to 500 guests, a cocktail party in the Caribe Lounge at 11:30 a.m. for this group, followed by a noon luncheon in the grand ballroom.

Grand opening of the hotel is due Thursday night, August 11, with a formal dinner and champagne ball in the Caribe Lounge and grand ballroom. Among 600 guests who will pay $100 apiece to provide a $60,000 fund for the Nina Anderton Foundation for the benefit of the Jimmy McHugh Polio Foundation are expected to be a host of Hollywood movie stars and nationally-famous business and civic leaders.

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This Is The Site Of

UNION OIL C6NUR

YOU'RE LOOKING EAST, in view above, across the cleared site ot Union Oil Center, toward the heart of the Los Angeles business district, in background. Huge piles of steel stacked on site will be used in pilings.

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YOU'RE LOOKING WEST, in this view, from atop the Jonathan Club building, with Union Oil site indicated by arrow. It has freeway access from all directions. Heavily-traveled harbor freeway is in foreground.

CENTER OF THE STAGS in 11 Union Oil Company head I it was cleared for start ol o plefed Pacific Clay Produie produce brokers' buildiif Petroleum building, and i

SEVERAL APARTMENT BUILDING! earlier years, as pictured abort site of the future oil company W

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zentrations ot major building projects in Los Angeles postwar history now is held by new $20,000,000 -/ Del E. Webb Construction Co. This Los Angeles Times air photo shows (No. 1) the Union Oil site before i^th. Also shown: (2) site of $970,000 Chamber of Commerce structure now being built; (3) recently com-,',i Belridge Oil Co. building; (5) newly-built Cass & Johansing insurance building; (6) Mailliard-Schmiedel jjtte building planned; (8) scheduled Portland Cement Co. building; (9) new Hotel Stafler; (10} General tirs Association project.

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LOS ANGELES FOLKS who work for the Webb Co. and their families enjoyed an unusual treat on a recent week-end when they were conducted on a tour of the glittering new $17,000,000 Beverly Hilton Hotel (pictured above), now being completed by Webb workmen in Beverly Hills, Calif., and scheduled for public opening August 12. fn its luxurious interior they saw fabulous ballrooms and banquet rooms, swank suites and apartments, and works of art that long will be conversation topics, for the Beverly Hilton is reported to be the most sumptuous structure of its kind in the world. Their tour, arranged by Mgr. R. H. Johnson and Bus. Mgr. Dale Griffith of the Webb Co. Los Angeles office, was ably conducted by John J. Fahey, chief of operations on the big construction /ob. And it was the last such visit for a large group before the hostelry opens. Visitors are pictured (at right) inspecting the grand ballroom, a California symphony in white and gold, sparkling with chandeliers and imported tiles. One guest — Louise Griffith, Dale's wife — made the tour in a wheelchair, having suffered a fractured leg recently in a fall at her home.

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THOUGH MOST of the dining and banquet rooms still had not received finishing touches when the Webb Co. group visited, there was evidence on every hand that Hotelman Conrad Hilton intends to make good his boast that the Beverly Hilton will set new world standards tor hotel luxury, serv ice and hospitality. Above, the visitors inspect the Versailles Room, with its marble fountains and beautiful wall murals.

IN SPACIOUS PATIO, visitors looked over a 50x90-foot pool, completely tiled, heated for comfortable swimming in all weather, and surrounded by colorful cabanas whose guests may be served from a permanent poolside food and beverage bar.

TERRACED BALI ROOM, visitors are told, will afford each patron a front-row seat for ice shows and other entertainment, plus a view ot pool and patio through a spectacular wall of glass 130 feet long and 23 feet high. Entire seating area for 500 guests is clear-span, with columns at rear of room only.

EQUALLY SPECTACULAR is a II 0-foot mural along one wall ot the Bali Room, done in a style which Artist Mary Bowling calls "intarsia" and which utilizes glass, ceramics, semi-precious stones and other colorful materials to create a glittering bas-relief effect. It depicts the gracious customs of the Bafi-nese people of the South Seas.

VIEW FROM BALCONY ot a Beverly Hilton suite interests some ot the visitors. During tour they found such innovations as radio, television and an electric refrigerator in every guest room; individual air-conditioning controls, and both tub and glass-enclosed shower in every room.

AFTER THE TOUR the Webb Co. folks were guests at a sumptuous lunchon at the Bit-O-Sweden Cafe in Hollywood. They voted the party a highly-successful event which for many provided a rare opportunity to see the interior of the famed hostelry.

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DIRECTORY DEL E.WEBB

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R. A. Becker, Secretary T. F. Hetherington, Assistant Secretary

PHOENIX OFFICE 302 South 23rd Avenue, P. O. Box 4066, Phoenix, Arizona, Phone Atpine 8-7441

J. R. Ashton, Vice President and District Manager

H. E. Boice, Chief of Operations Kim Bannister F. S. Murray A. C. Jacobson, Sr. E. W. Flint T. E. Breen O. F. Childress J. W. Meeker Bobby Spaulding Lorcaine Greager Geraldine Hampton Alice Murdoch Evelyn Martin

W. J. Miller, Business Manager H. G. Winston P. G. Marks J. L. Morton J. P. McLain Rosa M. Kort G. G. Grantham Rose Romano D. L. Kauffman Emma Marie Miller

Amy Jo Hafford Kara C. Newell Pearl S. Richardson Florence Olson t. P. Mulkern L. O. Hoeft Gladys Sanders Mary P. Moss

LOS ANGEIES OFFICE

5101 San Fernando Road W., Los Angeles 39, Phone CHapman 5-2616

R. H. Johnson, Vice President and District Manager

E. T. Davies, Chief of Operations C. H. Dean R. C. Hinton E. H. Smith, Jr. Ralph Wanless G. A. Anderson F. W. Danielson

Martha Little

D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager Enola Owens M. F. Chambers F. O. Langell Alice Stears M. F. Webb Beverly Often S. A. Grubbs E. B. York

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE 615 South Commonwealth Ave. Los Angeles, Calif. Phone DUnkirk 9-3631 G. A. Murray, Job Superintendent W. R. Foeht, Job Office Manager

PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE First & Polk Sts. Phoenix, Arizona Phone ALpine 2-3871 F. L. McDowell, Job Superintendent M. T. Rigg, Job Office Manager

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, OFFICE 1131 Austin Highway San Antonio, Texas Phone TAylor 2-7701 W. A. Warriner, Mgr. of Job Operations

PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE 13th Ave. & Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone CRestwood 4-5828 Tom Gilbreath, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

SAN DIEGO, CALIF., OFFICE P. O. Box 9396 4724 Hidalgo Ave. San Diego V, Calif. Phone BRoadway 3-6234 J. N. McPhee, Job Superintendent T. L. Rittenhouse, Job Engineer P. D. Clouthier, Job Office Manager W. C. Edmundson, Job Accountant

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF., OFFICE 9973 Santa Monica Blvd. Beverly Hills, Calif. Phone BRadshaw 2-8153

J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer C. F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager

TUCSON, ARIZONA, OFFICE P. O. Box 7245, South Tucson Station Tucson, Arizona Phone 3-4002 R. L. Reeves, Job Office Manager

EL PASO, TEXAS, OFFICE P. O. Box 5097 6101-17 Montana St. El Paso, Texas Phone PRospect 8-2096 F. E. Warren, Job Superintendent R. T. White, Job Office Manager

PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE 19th Ave. and Thomas Rd. Phoenix. Arizona Tom Gilbreath, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE Central Ave. and Camelback Rd. Phosnix, Arizona Phone CRestwood 4-9742

F. L. McDowell, Job Superintendent M. T. Rigg, Job Office Manager

Uptown Plaza Shopping Center To Open August 25 Although a mid-July strike of sand

and gravel firm workers threatened to cause an unexpected delay, Arizona's newest and most modern shopping center, Uptown Plaza at Phoenix, was being rushed to completion this month in preparation for a grand public opening on August 25.

More than a score of spacious stores and shops, including a huge supermarket, large hardware, variety and notions stores as well as ready-to-wear shops, are included in the 10-acre business center located at Central Avenue and Camelback Road, one of the busiest corners in the capital city.

The shopping center is of brick, ma

sonry and steel construction, with flagstone trim on some stores, and all painted an attractive shade of green. A huge automobile parking area will be handy to all stores and shops. Lessees and their employees will keep the parking area clear of their cars for use of customers. All signs of business firms will be uniform, and signs and window lights in each store will be kept lighted after closing time and until 11 o'clock each night.

The shopping center is being built by the Webb Company for the C & C Development Co., officers of which are executives of the construction company.


DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. 302 South 23rd Ave. Phoenix, Arizona

5101 San Fernando Road West Los Angeles, California

in the interests of the personnel of its various projects and branch offices





John Morton, Phoenix Dale Griffith, Los Angeles

CIRCULATION MANAGER Kara Caroline (Casey) Newell

Member Society of Associated Industrial Editors


Industrial Editors

Greetings and best wishes from The W e b b Spinner to the following employees who observe birthday anniversaries during August: Fred McDowell, Phoenix . . Aug. 4 Owen Childress, Phoenix . . Aug. 15 Everett B. York, Los Angeles Aug. 24 Jack Ford, Phoenix Aug. 26

Real Living, Eh? Secretary Flo Olson of Phoenix va

cationed at home, created a formal dress for herself, became the godmother of a friend's youngster, and then with friends hied herself to Tucson for a week-end of luxurious living at the Flamingo Hotel there.

Couldn't Escape The Heat W h e n he arrived at Madison, Wis.,

with his family to vacation and rest up from a long and tiresome train trip, Speedy Winston of the Phoenix office walked into the hottest summer weather Madison had experienced in 44 years, and wished he was back home. But he stayed on to visit his wife's family and help his kids enjoy a handy playground and zoo. He left his family there when he had to return in mid-July, but expects them home early in August. Speedy also called on Dave Kauffman's folks in Madison.

Vol.9, No. 7 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, AUGUST, 1955 24 Pages

America's Most Sumptuous Hotel Is Completed Beverly Hilton,

Built By Webb Co., Formally Dedicated A week-long series of inaugural

events dazzling even for Hollywood signaled the mid-August formal opening of the $17,000,000 Beverly Hilton Hotel built in fashionable Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Del E. W e b b Construction Co.

Already acclaimed across the nation by its owners as "America's Most Sumptuous Hotel," the swank Beverly Hilton quickly w o n the plaudits ot

I a host of television, radio, newspaper and magazine writers w h o hailed it as a luxury hostelry destined to gain world-wide fame.

Designed by Architect Welton Becket of Los Angeles and two years in construction, the Beverly Hilton was erected by the W e b b C o m p a n y

1 for Conrad N. Hilton, international-: ly-known hotel magnate w h o had f the special knowledge, financial back-

ing, vision and all-around confidence • to bring the palatial hostelry into existence in his h o m e city.

A n d though Conrad Hilton con-| trols, more or less directly, 30,000 guest rooms in almost 30 hotels around the world, the new Beverly

. Hilton already is being styled the "Crown Jewel" of his international

... chain. The week-long opening ceremonies

were witnessed by business and pro-; fessional leaders from all over the .'. world; were chronicled not only by Southern California newsmen, T V and radio editors, but also by a

I planeload of Eastern and Midwestern press w h o arrived on a specially-

1 chartered T W A Constellation to be |: Hotelman Hilton's guests during six days of spectacular events.

A n d into these colorful ribbon-cut-


AT FLAG RAISING ceremonies for new Beverly Hilton, Vice President Richard M. Nixon (second from right) is pictured with friends. From left are Conrad N. Hilton, probably the world's most important hotelman; Col. Henry Crown, owner of the Empire State Building and a Hilton vice-president and director; Nuri Kinik, a representative of the Turkish government; Vice President Nixon and Del E. Webb, whose construction firm built the $17,000,000 hostelry. Flag raising program at Wilshire Boulevard entrance of Beverly Hilton is pictured below.

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PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS had a field day snapping pictures at Beverly Hilton flag raising, which saw American Flag raised by Vice President Nixon, California state flag by Atty. Gen. Edmund G. Brown and Hilton Hotel colors by Conrad Hilton. Simultaneously, 28 other Hilton hotels around the world held similar flag-raising ceremonies of their own.

AMONG NOTABLES at dedicatory ceremonies were the three pictured above with Contractor Del Webb, second from left. They are Dan Thornton, left, former governor of Colorado; Los Angeles County Sheriff Eugene Biscailux and Architect Welton Becket, who designed the luxury hotel and considers it an outstanding achievement among structures which have gained him a score of architectural awards.

Magnificent Starburst Is Beverly Hilton Theme Theme of the luxurious Beverly Hilton is a magnificent sculptured Starburst, by famed artist Bernard Rosenthal, which is mounted on a 30-foot-square gold mirror in the handsome lobby. A symbol of space and freedom, this sculpture required two years to complete.

Beginning with brass and bronze sheets, bars, rods, etc., the materials were cut to shape, welded, pounded, and textured by the original Rosenthal technique. The finish, a gold and red patina, was attained by applying acids directly on the metals.

The lobby itself is spacious, with high ceilings and rich black terrazzo floors, and runners of gold carpet. In the lounge areas are hand-woven rugs by Edward Fields of beige, brown, black and gold metallics.

Walls and massive columns are of travertine marble, and one wall is covered with tangerine and golden-toned, hand-blocked wallpaper. Custom made furniture colorings vary from tangerine to gold with bronze leathers and brass highlights.

HUMOROUS NOTE in festivities brought chuckles to Vice President Nixon, Hotelman Hilton and, in rear, Ex-Governor Thornton and Builder Webb.

ADVERTISING campaign in top U.S. magazines in behalf of The Beverly Hilton, styled "America's Most Sumptuous Hotel," was launched w/fn opening of the new luxury hostelry this month. Advertisement pictured above appeared in three colors in such magazines as Time, Life and the Saturday Evening Post.

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Screen Star Esther Williams Helps Open Colorful Aqua Star Pool

DEDICATION of the swimming pool and cabanas at the new Beverly Hilton was a big moment for the Nursery School for Visually Handicapped Children, which received all proceeds, and the several hundred ladies who attended paid a minimum of $10 apiece. The program opened with a luncheon on the poolside terrace, then a style parade of bathing attire and finally a colorful water ballet presided over by glamorous Esther Williams.

Menu At Traders Offers Exotic Polynesian Foods

Decorated like the temple room of of an ancient Maori ceremonial hut, The Traders restaurant at the new Beverly Hilton is another of the exotic Polynesian restaurants designed, created and decorated by Trader Vic, who in real life is Victor J. Bergeron.

In its cocktail lounge and five din-l) ing areas — the Mask Room, Ship * Room, Trader's Room, Tiki Deck and j Garden Room — The Traders will seat 180 to 200 guests.

The restaurant displays masks from New Guinea and Africa, Polynesian

i war clubs, outrigger canoes from Samoa, huge shells from the Great Barrier reef and Hawaii and African

I spears and shields. Wall coverings of I Tapa cloth and several types of reed j and grass mattings are from Indo-I nesia, Samio, Tahiti and Japan. The |i ceiling is papered with Japanese

t* newspapers.

BEVERLY HILTON POOL, with an over-all area of more than 5,000 square feet, is in a tropical garden-like setting. It is completely tiled, rather a rare luxury these days, lined on two sides by 33 colorful cabanas, and served by its own permanent poolside food and beverage bar.

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TRUMPET FANFARE greeted guests arriving for Champagne Ball, one of formal opening events at Beverly Hilton. Pictured are, from left, Del Webb, Miss Ton! Ince, Mrs. L. C. Jacobson and Mr. Jacobson.

WEBB COMPANY officials and their wives relax In luxurious lobby before start of dinner dance. They are, from left, R. H. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. J. R. Ashton, Mrs. L. C. Jacobson, Mr. Jacobson and Mr. Ashton.

UNDER GOLDEN STARBURST at edge of grand staircase in Hilton lobby are pictured the Ashtons, Miss Ince and Mr. Webb.

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Aid *Ja eUcvdtiel Two scintillating dinner dances, the $125-a-plate Victory Ball and the $100-a-plate Champagne Ball, were among formal opening parties at the luxurious Beverly Hilton, and the fanfare created by Hotelman Conrad Hilton left even the Hollywood society and fashion writers virtually gasping.

Of the Victory Ball, Society Editor Anne Thompson Smith of the Los Angeles Herald Express wrote: "The most spectacular and fabulous party Los Angeles has ever seen x x x x x."

Said Cholly Angeleno in the Examiner: "In the quarter century I've been attending large social events in Southern California, last night's pre-opening party at the fabulous Beverly Hilton definitely stands out as the most brilliant."

Almost at loss for new adjectives after the Champagne Ball, the Examiner's writer could only add, "It didn't seem possible that any gathering could equal the new hotel's preopen-ing party x x x x but last night's affair certainly attained a new high in brilliant reveling."

But even blase Hollywood, accustomed to its movie and television premiers and spectaculars, had to sit up and take notice of the splendor of the Hilton parties.

The Victory Ball, a benefit to provide funds for a new wing for St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, was held in the hotel's colorful Bali Room and, wrote Elizabeth Goodland in the Times, "from beginning to end took on the exotic beauty of the Orient ... an intermingling of Los Angeles society, dignitaries of foreign countries and the greats of the entertain

ment world x x x ."

The Bali Room's huge intarsia mural of imported glass chips and semiprecious stones glistened on the islands of tables that resembled transparent shells. Each had its own "fountain" of sequined nylon strands flickering with tiny butterfly lights and its own spray of orchids flown from Hawaii. O n the walls three-tiered brackets in cloudy pink overflowed with simulated denizens of the sea. All was designed in brilliant turquoise, orange, pink and gold.

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Pride In N e w Hotel Expressed By Hilton

How does Conrad N. Hilton, internationally-noted hotelman who owns hostelries around the world, feel about his new multi-million dollar Beverly Hilton?

Here's what he told a gathering of about 500 business, political and film notables from over the nation who attended a brilliant inauguration luncheon:

"As I walk through the Beverly Hilton and examine the myriad details of this shining new hotel, I am proud to be an American and proud to be a hotelman. To me this hotel stands as a symbol of the beautiful and useful things which Americans, practicing many arts, crafts and professions, can create by working together for a common purpose. The hotel will offer gracious living at its best because of the efforts of free Americans, who planned with imagination and built with skill. I am grateful to all who contributed to the project."

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Beautiful Dorothy Kirsten of the Metropolitan and San Francisco Opera was there to sing; George Gobel's comedy brought delighted chuckles, and Jack Benny, as master of ceremonies, brought down the house when he remarked "the Russian farmers are coming to California and undoubtedly will want to stay at the Beverly Hilton. However, they'll be in for quite a surprise when they learn that Hilton's name is Conrad — not Comrade!"

Fashion provided a storybook aura of splendor as Sophie (Mrs. Adam Gimbel) of Saks-Fifth Avenue wove a brilliant tapestry of evening elegance with her especially-designed collection of 48 formal gowns and short dance dresses. Wrote one fashion editor, "x x x this famed designer exhibited sumptuous models in all the precious jewel colorings; opulent stand-alone satins, Lyons velvet, Indian sari gauzes threaded with gold bullion, fine laces, chiffons and brocades were her luxurious media x x."

At the height of the party the diners looked out the huge glass windows at one side of the Bali Room toward

CHAMPAGNE BALL guests included group of Webb Company officials pictured above, and their associates. They are, clockwise, from Dr. J. G. Wolf (facing camera), Mrs. Wolf, L. C. and Mrs. Jacobson, the Frank Clarks, the R. H. Johnsons and Mrs. J. R. Ashton. Mr. Ashton, also at table, was out of camera range at right. Mr. Clark is a member of a legal firm representing the Webb Co. and Dr. Wolf was the company physician on the Beverly Hilton project. AT RIGHT — Miss Toni Ince and Del Webb at the fashionable dinner dance. >• the swimming pool to witness a spectacular fireworks display.

An estimated 800 guests contributed $80,000 at $100 apiece to the Jimmy McHugh Polio Foundation to attend the Champagne Ball in the hotel's Grand Ballroom. Guests were greeted at the hotel's main entrance with a fanfare of blaring trumpets, and a rain of three million gold-colored paper raindrops from the Goodyear blimp flying overhead, while huge floodlights illuminated the hotel and the night sky. When they departed, there were farewell tunes from the orchestras gathered in the foyer, and as a humorous climax real, live, pink-dyed elephants paraded in the motor court, carrying girls in se-quined tights and waving their trunks in farewell.

In the Grand Ballroom guests found lavish appointments, including 75 dozen golden starbursts suspended on invisible wires from the ceiling, amid which twinkled tiny, illuminated fireflies. Each dinner course was preceded by the dimming of lights, a trumpet fanfare and the spotlighted appearance of serving boys wearing gold-trimmed, rose velvet coats, white satin knee britches and perukes. They carried silver trays with jeweled peacocks prior to the entree, jeweled lob-

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sters prior to the fish course, and elaborate ice cream molds prior to the dessert course. Vintage wines, flown from France especially for the evening, were served with the dinner.

Eddie Fisher, who squired Debbie Reynolds fhat night, was emcee and star of the floor show, and he sang a medley of Jimmy McHugh songs with the composer at the piano. There was: a complete floor show and, as at the Victory Ball, three bands alternated through the evening — Bernard Hil-ga and his Continental Orchestra, flown from Rome for the evening festivities; Mischa Novy and his Velvet Strings from San Francisco, which now is the hotel orchestra, and Joe Moshay and his orchestra.

Another fashion revue saw twelve lovely young women model the latest creations of a dozen of America's leading designers, with each gown named in honor of one of the Beverly Hilton's famous dining salons.

And, as at the Victory Ball, Hotel-man Hilton presented costly gold brooches to the ladies and matching cufflinks to their escorts. The ladies also received on each occasion custom-made hat boxes containing bottles of exotic perfume.

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Offering New World Standards For Luxury, Service And Hospitality

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ALREADY ACCLAIMED by many writers "the finest hotel in the world," this is the Beverly Hilton, newest addition fo Conrad N. Hilton's famed world-wide chain of hostelries. Designed by Architect Welton Becket of Los Angeles and built by the Del E. Webb Construction Co., the eight-story structure occupies eight and one-half acres on Wilshire Boulevard in fashionable Beverly Hills, Calif., and offers luxury-accustomed visitors 450 outside rooms, 35 suites and eight penthouses overlooking a huge swimming pool, tropical gardens and patio. Penthouses are for permanent guests and rent for $136,000 on a five-year lease, but an overnighter can get a single room as low as $?2 a day. View above looks eastward from a point adjacent to Santa Monica Boulevard. View below is that which greets east-bound travelers on Wilshire Boulevard.

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AIR VIEW shows how the Beverly Hilton occupies an 8Vi-acre triangular site which cost Conrad Hilton $3,000,000. Santa Monica Boulevard cuts across lower right half of photo. World-famous Wilshire Boulevard is on the back side of the triangle, and Beverly Hilton's varied shops face it. Hollywood is only minutes away. The downtown Los Angeles financial district and the International Airport are 20 minutes distant. — (Pacific Air Industries Photo).

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ting ceremonies, Hilton, known even to his competitors as "a real sport with a buck," chucked nearly a half million dollars.

Webb Company executives, headed by Pres. Del E. Webb, were guests throughout the formal opening program.' And because of the hotel's intricate design and the necessity during construction for painstaking planning, not only in design and color but in craftsmanship, the Webb Company quickly was accorded praise for meeting under highly-complex conditions the Beverly Hilton standards of quality. The earthquake-proof structure is

eight stories on 8V2 acres and houses 450 rooms, 35 suites, eight penthouses, five banquet rooms, seven restaurant-bars and one private cocktail lounge. Basic construction is reinforced concrete, except for the main dining room and ballroom roofs where structural steel was used to

conserve weight.

Of contemporary modern architecture, it is a stunning example of "total design," a technique of integrating every factor from door knobs to flatware in the building scheme.

Words barely begin to describe its luxuriousness.

Palatial? Of its 35 suites and eight penthouses, as well as its 450 rooms, each is individually decorated to enhance some particular motif.

Sumptuous? The Grand Ballroom can accommodate 1,000 persons. In the exclusive Nordic Room guests at private dinner parties sit down before walls shimmering with 25,000 polished kapa shells, and huge whalebone sculptures dramatize the Viking atmosphere achieved with white pecky cypress beams alternating with apricot panels.

Magnificent? The weary traveler can rest his head at the Beverly Hilton for $136,000, the rate of a five-year penthouse lease, or for $12 a day. And in the Versailles Room he can quench his thirst at an origi

nal 17th century marble fountain which obediently sends forth a spray of champagne, upon demand.

From the top of its cantilevered suspension Star on the Roof to the subterranean garage where 600 cars can be parked, the travertine marble and terrazzo beauty is a fit queen for the Hilton chain of hotels.

Throughout the guest cannot go far without shaking hands with some convenience or unexpected luxury.

Chief attraction probably is the Beverly Hilton's lavish interior, a masterpiece of good taste, usefulness and eye-popping color schemes. The spacious, high-ceilinged lobby unfolds in rich black terrazzo floors and runners of gold carpet. In the lounge areas are hand-woven rugs of beige, brown, black and gold metallic. Walls and columns are of travertine marble, and one wall is covered with tangerine and golden-toned, hand-blocked wallpaper.

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WILSHIRE BOULEVARD ENTRANCE to the new Beverly Hilton Hotel.

AUTO ENTRANCE is in inner court, from which spiral ramp leads to subterranean garage with parking for 600 cars. BELOW — This garage also opens at street level onto Santa Monica Boulevard, as shown in foreground.

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tronically by University of California research department professors for soundproof assurance. Beds in the rooms are longer — six foot six, for extra comfort, and any kind of bed up to extra-king-size is available.

More than a half million dollars was paid for dining room silver. Kitchens serving the hotel cover two acres, leading one observer to wonder, "They have so many ovens 1 wonder how they remember where to put the turkey."

Everything was designed and manufactured expressly for the Beverly Hilton, and rugs, furniture, silverware, plates, cups, tapestries, colors, paints — even the keys to the rooms — are unusual in shape and style.

Commissions to artists who integrated into the structure an invaluable collection of works of art amounted to more than $200,000.

There are more than three acres of shops offering «all varieties of services and merchandise. Hotel services include a barber shop', beauty salon, flower shop, candy and gift shop, valet, laundry and a medical department with a house physician in attendance.

There are more than 150 kinds of iobs in the Beverly Hilton, which boasts a payroll of almost 1,000 persons. In the matter of garage and automobile parking service, for example, the staff includes two gas attendants, two lubrication men, two rack men, a wash man, a polish man, and 45 parking attendants. While construction of the hotel was under way, 31,000 applications were received from hotel workers all over the world.

Arthur E. Elmiger, esthetic, young-looking general fnanager, and Robert A. Groves, resident manager, in terviewed 15,000 people in one year to hire 700. Their preparations for this month's opening began 17 months previously, in March of 1954, when both arrived in Beverly Hills and set up a temporary office on the hotel site.

For a month before its opening the Beverly Hilton maintained a payroll of $4,000 a day just getting its staff trained and familiar with hotel operations.

"We set out to create the queen hotel for our corporation," said Manager Elmiger. "If this isn't it, there will be none."


A Brilliant New Silhouette Against The Los Angeles Night Sky

HUGE FLOODLIGHTS blazed into the night sky and bathed the new Beverly Hilton in brilliance during the formal opening week events.

Writer Finds Waiters Waiting On Waiters In L'Escoffier Room A visit to the Beverly Hilton's

famed L'Escoffier room left these impressions with Erskine Johnson, columnist for the Los Angeles Mirror-News :

"No scoffing, please, about dining at L'Escoffier. Even when you gulp about the prices that do not appear on the menus — the $12.50 'Meno Classique' for aspiring 'gourmets' to $45 per person for veteran food connoisseurs.

"The Escoffier tradition of French cooking, dining and service is being introduced to Hollywood atop the new $17,000,000 Beverly Hilton Hotel and it's movietown's answer to 'Let's impress 'em with lots of waiters.'

"L'Escoffier has waiters waiting on waiters who are waiting on waiters who are waiting on you. The plush sky room, with its panoramic view of Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, seats only 72 diners. Serving them are 58

'cuisiniers.'

Star On The Roof Offers Fine Panoramic View A panoramic view sky room is the

artistically and architecturally elegant Star on the Roof cocktail lounge located atop the eight-story Beverly Hilton, offering a dramatic view of Los Angeles, Beverly Hills and Santa Monica.

Sheer glass walls extending from floor to ceiling provide the unobstructed view of the California metropolis. "This has been planned and

"A new waiter and a new wine arrive with every course. Even the chefs came out of the kitchen for direct instructions. I'm no gourmet so I won't attempt to review my 'preview' dinner there. But brother, it wasn't ham on rye — and I haven't seen so many waiters in one room since I reported a meeting of the local waiters' union."

created as an intimate, glamorous room unequalled anywhere; one that frames the lush, natural beauty of the locale in pleasing, sophisticated surroundings," said Arthur Elmiger, general manager of the hotel.

Setting the theme for the luxurious

lounge is a huge starburst sculpture by Vernard Rosenthal, molded of gilded bronze. More gilt is displayed in the unusual carpeting which also covers the exterior of the bar. A combination of blue, turquoise, black and purple with gold, it is the first commercially-woven metallic carpet produced.

Adding to the decor is a central wall of imperial travertine marble fronting the express elevator shaft. Other interior partitions are covered in Japanese grass cloth laid over gold leaf paper.

The Star on the Roof can accommodate about 120 persons.


DINING AT THE POOLSIDE in a verdant tropical setting is one of the luxuries afforded Beverly Hilton guests. Patio dining area is served by its own permanent food and beverage bar. Above is the huge glass window wall of the Bali Room, which overlooks the Aqua Star pool.

COFFEE HOUSE, on garden level, has a broad, two-sided glass exposure to the swimming pool and patio area, and serves informal meals from 6:30 a.m. to 1 1 p.m. A counter and fountain capacity is 27, while entire restaurant will accommodate 132 guests. It is served by its own kitchen.

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TIKI POLES, fifteen-foot-high reproductions of the gods of the ancient Maoris, stand on the Wilshire Boulevard side ot the Beverly Hilton adjacent to The Traders restaurant. They are carved of redwood logs. Interior is authentically decorated in the style ot a Maori temple.

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lieokanl QawuiiAet It's a long epicurean way from a hamburger to Scotch grouse.

But at the new L'Escoffier room of the $17,000,000 Beverly Hilton the dining guest may please his palate with anything from beef in patty, to beef a l'oeuf.

Comfortably nestled in luxurious neatness atop eight stories of the lushest kind of living, the L'Escoffier room is the dream of a famed chef, Georges Auguste Escoffier, and a splendid reality for Hotelman Conrad Hilton.

The price of L'Escoffier dinner, all a la carte, may raise the eyebrows of some food connoisseurs, but from the moment the diner walks into the room he or she is treated like visiting royalty, and the meal is intended to be "an art that can be laid upon the tongue."

There are no prices on the menus — and for the guests who order a few days in advance, there are no menus.

Don't know what you want? Wish to be spared the problem of studying the French script? Aspiring gourmets are introduced to the Escoffier tradition with a "Menu Classique," at a cost of $12.50 each.

Four certified Escoffier chefs, engaged from the finest restaurants in Europe, cook for the room's guests. Diners give their orders direct to the chefs at the table through interpreters, for the chefs speak no English.

Entrees are served on plates costing $22.50 each, and all dishes, glassware and silverware were baked, blown and forged for exclusive L'Escoffier room use. More than 300 brands of wine and champagne, set aside two years ago in France for L'Escoffier restaurant, are stored in the hotel's great wine cellar, and for each regular diner the head waiter keeps a "patron's history," noting the guest's preferences in wine, cigarettes, flowers and sauces.

Zoo Was Tommy's Goal Gerry Hampton and son, Tommy,

of the Phoenix office hied themselves to the west coast to cool off recently, visited Manhattan Beach and then vacationed several days in San Diego where Gerry was busy most of the time showing her offspring through the big San Diego zoo.

Bali Room Is Most Spectacular Of Hilton Dining Salons Largest and most spectacular of the dining rooms in the sumptuous

Beverly Hilton is the Bali Room, which in its 7,500-square-foot area will accommodate more than 500 guests and provide each a "front row" seat for stage entertainment by virtue of its terraced design and the fact that the entire seating area is clear-span, with columns at the rear of the room only.

Located on the south side of the Beverly Hilton's eight-acre site, the Bali Room overlook* the swimming pool and cabana area. A wall of glass which faces the swimming pool is 130 feet long and 23 feet high, and curtained with drapes which are opened and closed electrically.

Lighting systems of the huge dining room and the swimming pool area are coordinated so that the pool, which is illuminated in a varying rainbow of colors, can be used to heighten the moods and dramatic effects inside the Bali Room.

A beautiful 110-foot mural, utilizing glass, ceramics, semi-precious stones and other colorful materials to create a glittering bas-relief effect, graces one of the Bali Room's walls. Designed by Mary Bowling, it depicts the gracious customs of the Balinese people of the South Seas.

Keyed to this unusual mural is the Bali Room's color scheme, which was worked out by a team of specialists from Architect Welton Becket's

organization. A harmony of restained pink and gold, basically, it also has lush accents of blue, violet and jungle green. And all the room's furnish-coordinated. ings, from the hand-woven curtains to the custom-made carpeting, are

Bali Room stages are elaborately equipped with microphones and lighting facilities. In addition to an ice rink, it boasts a maple dance floor operated by hydraulic lift, with different levels for shows and public dancing.

Recessed lighting spangles the vast ceiling. It is supplemented by hanging lanterns of plastic, five feet in diameter and decorated with wrought iron scrollwork.

Shape of the Bali Room approximates that of a quarter segment of a circle, with the glass and mural walls for its straight sides.

Classical music is offered during luncheon, and at night two orchestras provide music for dining, star-studded shows and dancing.

HERALDED as the most exclusive restaurant in the world, this is the Beverly Hilton's L'Escoffier Room, which seats 72 diners and is serviced by 58 cuisin-iers. Room colors of deep blues, fuchsia and silver metallics create a midnight moonlight mood. A handsome mural, at left, forms the backdrop for the ivory leather banquettes from which diners look down upon the city through floor-to-ceiling windows at right and in background. The mural depicts the zodiac and days ot the week, is wrought in stained glass and special plastics, and backlighted so its marvelous colors glow under soft nighttime lighting like medieval cathedral windows.

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THE HILTON HOTELS, long famous across America and now centers of hospitality around the world, raise their flag proudly over the new Beverly Hilton built in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Del E. Webb Construction Co. It represents

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1 create a hotel recognized throughout the world fo* pace-setting conceptions of luxury and service — new standards 8 by which all new hotels will be compared for years to come.


Where Existing Standards Were Put Aside As Inadequate And New Ones Established

GRAND BALLROOM, which seats 1,000, has fourteen-foot architectural screens of pre-cast Italian terrazzo tiles in pinks, beiges and brown, alternated with wood panels rubbed with white and gold paint to enhance wood grain. Huge brass chandeliers with candle tapers light the great room with myriads of stars.

STAR ON THE ROOF is a roof-top cocktail lounge with an unobstructed panoramic view of the city and an interior color scheme of blue-green, purple and pink to achieve a feeling of starlight and moonlight. Its beautiful carpets, threaded with sparkling metallics, are the first such ever made for commercial use.

THE TRADERS, restaurant and cocktail lounge specializing in Polynesian and Asiatic dishes, has an interior authentically styled after a Maori temple.

NORDIC ROOM diners sit before backdrop of whalebone sculpture five feet high and fifteen feet long on a wall shimmering with 25,000 kapa shells from the Philippines. Each shell, flattened and polished, was individually applied in an overlapping ripple pattern and thoroughly lacquered for preservation. ,

CADORO ROOM is a luxurious supper club for private parties, its walls covered with nearly $10,000 worth of gold-toned Italian damask instead of wall paper. One wall is mirrored to form a background thirty feet by fifteen feet reflecting brilliant crystal chandeliers. Cadoro Room accommodates 230 guests for banquets, or 200 for dinner-dancing.

CARIBE LOUNGE, adjoining Grand Ballroom, has as a back-bar a thirty-nine-foot, hand-woven wool tapestry mural depicting in brilliant colors the light-hearted, picturesque Caribbean way of life.

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SCULPTURED STARBURST, 15 feet in diameter and weighing 500 pounds, is mounted on a 30-foot-square gold mirror at head of stairway leading from garden floor to Beverly Hilton lobby.

Red Lion Bar Patterned After Eleventh Century English Pub An historic 11th Century English pub has been recreated in the center of one of the 20th century's most modern hotels, the new Beverly Hilton.

Called the Red Lion Bar, the garden-level floor lounge is intended to ancient Bell Tavern of Hurley, Eng-resemble as closely as possible the land, complete to its red brick floor and huge eight-foot-wide stone fireplace.

It offers a club-like atmosphere, and caters to men only until 6 p.m.

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THE RED LION tavern in the Beverly Hilton, pictured above, has all the flavor and atmosphere of a celebrated English "pub," plus the feel of genuine British antiquity, for even its personnel are British. An afternoon sanctuary bar "for men only" until 6 p.m., this replica of a famous Bell Tavern in Hurley, England, is appointed with tavern chairs, an English stove, beamed ceiling of English Tudor oak, leaded glass windows, flooring of brick tile, three huge brass lamps, a magnificent English coat-of-arms, and an assortment of rare old English pieces of pewter, brass, iron and copper. For its opening it even had a Scotch bagpiper. glass walls in the 450-room hostelry, the Red Lion Bar has partitions of fumed oak. Even The Bell's beamed ceiling and color scheme of red, beige and brown was reproduced in the Red Lion.

WHALEBONE SCULPTURE in picturesque Nordic Room is shown by Gil Murray of Webb Co. to Alice Pearson, who wears colorful costume of Bali Room cigaret girl.

SUMPTUOUS SUITE, one of 35 in the Beverly Hilton, is pictured in two views above. Each has a serving bar. All guest rooms have individual air conditioning, TV and radio, and most have balconies, dressing rooms and electric refrigerators.


N o w A/leef Some Of The People Who Helped Create The Hilton

THE TASK of directing the huge construction program involved in building of the multi-million dollar Beverly Hilton rested squarely on the shoulders of the two smiting men pictured above. They are Robert H. Johnson, alright, Los Angeles office manager for the Webb Company, and Edward T. Davies, his chief of operations. Johnson "came up through the ranks" with the Webb Company, starting in Arizona 20 years ago as a timekeeper. Now he is a vice-president. Davies and his father were in the masonry contracting business before Ed joined forces with Johnson in J 945. Together they have played a leading role in the Webb firm's nationwide construction achievements.

Huge Working Force Overcomes Complex Construction Problems On Beverly Hilton Job Directly involving upwards of 2,000

construction men and w o m e n engaged in 55 different trades, building of the beautiful new Beverly Hilton presented construction problems far beyond the average in difficulty because of its intricate design, carefully worked-out harmonies and close tolerances.

And though the galaxy of workmen and craftsmen were employed by some 80 different firms, from the start the big project was supervised and directed by m e n of the Del E. W e b b Construction Co., as general contractor.

The Beverly Hilton was a unique building responsibility, for a controlling factor in its construction was the constant demand to meet Beverly Hilton standards of quality, under highly-complex conditions.

Overseeing the work of plasterers, painters, pipe-fitters, electricians and a host of other workmen, members oi 30 different unions, was a veteran

W e b b Company job superintendent Neil Drinkward. A n d he had to coordinate installations ranging from structural steel and concrete to marble and tapestry.

In addition to conventional materials, the construction people worked with specially cast tiles from Italy, Travertine marble, Japanese silk-and-gold-Ieaf wallpaper, pecky cypress, a wide variety of hardwoods, terrazzo — including Belgian Black, Sonora Verde, Italian Bottacino, Yellow and Red Verano terrazzo, to give an idea of the distances, efforts and numbers of m e n involved indirectly as well as directly in the building of the Beverly Hilton.

Serving as manager of job operations to coordinate the activities of construction men, architects and the owners, was John J. Fahey of the W e b b Company's Los Angeles office, another veteran of the building firm. Apollo Guizot and Cecil Drinkward

were the job engineers, and C. F. Kintzi the job office manager.

At times during the construction program, especially in the final stages, these men had the assistance of other W e b b Company construction specialists, including Dole J. Kelley, Sr., M . D. Stevens and Gil Murray as assistant superintendents, and Fritz Danielson, Morris DeConinck and Raymond Reichard, Jr., as engineers.

Clifford H. Dean was the operations m a n and F. 0. Langell the accountant assigned to the hotel job at the W e b b Company's Los Angeles

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cally and all Los Angeles firms unless otherwise identified) included the following: A.B.C. Letter Art, room numbers and

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LIAISON MAN between Webb Company officials, the architectural staff, the hotel owners and the construction men was John J. Fahey, a veteran chief of operations.

JOB SUPERINTENDENT on the meticulous hotel project was another Webb Company veteran, Nell Drinkward, who has built many other large structures in the Los Angeles area.

JOB ENGINEERS were Apollo (Appy) Guizot, left, and Cecil Drinkward, at right. With its intricate design, carefully worked-out harmonies and close tolerances, the Beverly Hilton presented construction problems far beyond the average in difficulty.


IMPORTANT ROLES in Beverly Hilton construction were carried by the people pictured on this page. Cliff Dean, above, left, was operations man and Frank O. Langell, conferring with him, was accountant on the project, both working at the Webb Company's Los Angeles headquarters. AT RIGHT — M. D. Stevens, left, and Dole J. Kelley, Sr., checking a construction detail in front of the entrance to The Trad-rs, were assistant superintendents, with Kelley directing work on the quaint Polynesian restaurant and cocktail lounge.

ENGINEERS who assisted on the mond O. Reichard, Jr. Photo above Holder, receptionist, and William R. Foeht, timekeeper.

Hilton project included, at left above, Fritz Danielson, Morris M. DeConinck and Ray-jve, right, is the job office staff, from left: C. F. Kintzi, job office manager; Betty A.

Workman Is Stricken Sadness tinged the gaiety of the

opening of the new Beverly Hilton for workmen on the job when a heart attack on August 4 was fatal to John Hood, 54, a Webb Company laborer, as he worked in The Trader's restaurant. He had started with Webb Com

pany crews on the Hughes Aircraft project, and subsequently transferred to the hotel project. Military funeral services were held at St. Clements Church in Ocean Park, Calif., on August 8.

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ious taxes deducted.

Really Gets Around Audrey Reiss, former Phoenix of

fice accounting department employee, postcards from Dallas, Tex., to report that she has returned from another wonderful trip to Europe. Hasn't been too long since Audrey was

in Hawaii.

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Nationwide Telecast, Holdup, Threat Of Strike All Feature Opening Week At New Hotel A nationwide telecast directly from

the new Beverly Hilton, a brazen holdup involving two of its guests, and a threatened strike among certain union employees soon after gay opening events began — all these were among "opening week" events.

The nation's televiewers got a peek at the "most luxurious hotel in America" when the Colgate Variety Hour was sent coast to coast on August 7 from the colorful Bali Room. Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his wooden-headed friends, including Charlie McCarthy and Effie Clinker,

stole the show.

Three armed ex-convicts held up a Texas oil heiress and her escort shortly after they left the Champagne Ball, accosting them in the basement garage of her West Los Angeles apartment and robbing them of $29,100 in

LINING THE RAMP leading to the subterranean garage, with an eye-popping, two-story-high water fountain in the foreground, are the foremen and superintendents of many of the crews from 55 different trades which helped construct the Beverly Hilton.

INSPECTING a special section ot the Los Angeles Times devoted to the story of the planning and construction of the fashionable hostelry are Mary Somerfeld, left, and LiHian Whitaker, steno clerks for the Webb Company on the Hilton iob. At right, above, is Leonard J. Bartecchi, the warehouseman.

furs, jewelry and cash. Beverly Hills police, checking a car which had no tail light, happened upon the robbers and speedily captured them almost at the entrance to the Beverly Hilton, to which they apparently had returned in search of other victims. Most of the loot was recovered.

Then strike action against the new hotel was averted within hours after its first opening event when Hilton officials reached a precedent-setting agreement with the American Guild of Variety Artists and the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees local.

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WITH THE BEVERLY HILTON OPEN and in operation, except for some shops on which work still is in progress, the Webb Company's Los Angeles construction staff turns its attention to its next major project — the building of Union Oil Center, a $20,000,000 headquarters in downtown Los Angeles for Union Oil Company of California. Pictured is the Los Angeles operations department during planning preceding the actual start of construction. In the foreground are E. T. Davies, left, and R. H. Johnson. Continuing toward rear ot next room are C. H. Dean, Ralph Wanless, R. C. Hinton, Dale Griffith, E. H. Smith, Jr., G. A. Anderson, Apollo Guizot, F. W. Danielson and E. B. York.

A WORKING REST Asked how he spent his vacation

this summer, R. G. Wanless of the Los Angeles staff had a ready and a brief answer: "Worked on m y house."

Rosa's Luck Still Good Rosa Kort of the Phoenix office ac

companied her husband and a son, Art, to Los Angeles, Hollywood and Newport Beach for some vacationing, and then returned home via Las Vegas, Nev., where Rosa picked up enough extra cash to just about make expenses. Only unfortunate feature of the trip was that a pickpocket made off with Art's wallet in a Hollywood theater and extracted all cash contents before dropping it into a mailbox from which the post office returned it to Phoenix.

On California Tour California was good enough for

G. A. (Andy) Anderson of the Los Angeles office when it came to vacationing. H e spent the first week of leisure getting his back yard in shape for some planting (leisure?), and then he and Mrs. Anderson headed northward. They visited friends in Palo Alto, enjoyed some of the San Francisco night 'life, headed back southward through Los Angeles to San Diego and spent a week-end with friends there. "It was a most enjojy-able vacation," said Andy, "and though we traveled about 1100 or 1200 miles, we got plenty of rest, a little sunshine, and much fun."

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Got Tired Of Resting George Shaw, warehouseman at the

Los Angeles headquarters, recently took a week's vacation and then came back to report time had hung so heavily on his hands he almost wished someone had called him to report back ( on the job before his vacation ended. Here's a m a n who really likes his work!

You-All Should Have Seen 'Em The deep South, down around Pike- ; [

ville, Tenn., attracted George Gran- 11 tham of the Phoenix office and his ( family, and he drove almost 4,000 miles on vacation. George, visiting his wife's family, came back to report ] favorably on the pulchritude of the Southern lassies (that is, those he saw at a distance).

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Summer League Title Won By Webb Golfers

It was hot (over 100 degrees) and pretty humid even for Phoenix when the Webb Company golf team went after the Sunflower League championship in a final match the afternoon of July 28.

And the Webb crew licked the heat, the humidity and their opponents.

They already had won the first-half competition, but had bowed to superior play by a Motorola contingent in the closing weeks of the summer twilight league.

But the Webb quartet wasn't to be denied in the championship match and, led by Johnny Meeker's 38 gross and 34 net, they bested Motorola 51/2 points to 3 % points. Blackie Hoeft, all but exhausted by the weather, came through with a 46 ross and 36 net to earn l ^ points, with T o m Mulkern and George Grantham also contributing l1/^ points each, Mulkern with a gross 45 and net 36 and Grantham with a 47 gross and 35 net. Milford Rigg, team alternate, did not compete in the finals.

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(Continued from Page 16) Arcadia, Calif., sliding1 doors and windows in hotel rooms; Barnard Engineering Co., automatic fire sprinkler systems; Blue Diamond Corp., Kalistron wainscot in Bali Room; Mary Bowling, intarsias in Bali Room; Bruner Marble & Tile Co., marble work in hotel and stores; California Metal Enameling Co., porce

lain balcony fins and fascia; George F. Casey Co., caisson excavation; Adalbert T. Clements, tiki carvings at The Traders; Coast Insulating Products, luminous ceiling in United Air Lines office; Cochran-Izant & Co., special ornamental metals in hotel; Columbia Showcase & Cabinet Co., Sun Valley, Calif., cabinet work in apartments; Consolidated Rock Products Co., ready-mixed concrete; Richard Cromwell, Hollywood, hand-made tiles in lobby screen; Custom Built Shower Door Co., El Monte, Calif., shower enclosures; Cutler Mail Chute Co., Huntington Park, Calif., mail chute and mail box; Diato Co., Diato floor in Versailles Room;

Diebold, Inc., vault doors; C. D. Draucker, Inc., electrical work in hotel and stores; Carroll Duncan & Co., lathing, plastering and sprayed-on acoustic treatment in hotel and stores; Eddie Egan & Associates, Inc., resilient floor covering in hotel and stores; Elevator Maintenance Co., Ltd., elevator and dumb-waiter work; Fairbanks-Morse & Co., warehouse scale;

Frank Fisher & Son, masonry work at The Traders; W . P. Fuller & Co., glass and glaz-

SILVER ANNIVERSARY. Edwin H. Smith ot the Los Angeles office operations department and wife, Ethel, pictured in the patio of their attractive La Crescents home, recent!/ observed their 25th wedding anniversary and were honored at a party attended by about forty relatives, neighbors and friends. Cake and punch were served and guests registered in the Smith's guest book. Ethel Smith, who has been in and out of the hospital in recent years and sometime ago underwent a spinal operation, had to sojourn in the hospital again this month. And ungrumbling Ed Smith, cheerful even in the face of mounting medical expenses (he and his daughter also were recently hospitalized), reported continued improvement in Ethel's condition. ing in stores; F. B. Gardner Co., air conditioning ; General Fixture Co., wood doors in hotel and stores; Daniel C. Hay, Beverly Hills, finish hardware in hotels and stores; Heinley Mastercraft Products, Santa Monica, movable shutters in cabanas and hotel; Ed Herlocker & Co., roofing and waterproofing in hotel and stores; C. C. Hewitt Co., painting in hotel and stores; Jackson Iron Works, Inc., Bell, Calif., miscellaneous metals work in hotel and stores; Johns-Manville Sales Corp., insulation and cold storage doors in refrigeration rooms; Johnson Western Constructors, San Pedro,

Calif., gunite work for ramp; Leonard Kaplan, Laguna Beach, Calif., whalebone sculptures in Nordic Room; F. F. Kunz, Pasadena, lath and plaster in The Traders; Lam-son Corp., pneumatic tube system; Lawrence Steel Co., steel rolling doors; N. B. Lesher & Sons, Inc., Van Nuys, Calif., stone masonry in stores; Little Crafts, special bathroom accessories in eighth-floor apartments; Los Angeles Art Glass Co., leaded glass windows in Red Lion Room; Los Angeles Fireproof Door Co., fireproof

doors; Los Angeles Window Cleaning & Maintenance Co., window cleaning; S. L. Martinez, cement finish work in hotel and stores; Milwaukee Stamping Co., Milwaukee, Wis., toilet, shower and dressing room partitions; Modern Building Specialties Co., Los Angeles, Modernfold doors in Versailles and Nordic Rooms; Modernfold Doors, Inc., Pasadena, Modernfold doors in main ballroom; National Steel & Shipbuilding Corp., San Diego, structural steel; Overly Manufacturing Co., metal doors

and door frames; Dale Owen and Robert Mallory, Santa Monica, mural for L'Escoffier Room; Paddock Pools, Inc., swimming pool; Harold E. Peterson, Inc., sheet metal

work and metal decking in hotel and stores; J. A. Powers, Inc., masonry work in hotel; Radich & Fergusson, Inc., Burbank, site clearing and excavation; Raphael Glass Co., aluminum work and glazing in stores; L. D. Reeder Co., finish wood floors; Republic Glass Co., antique mirrors in apartments; DoOglas Riseborough, Hollywood, mural

in Versailles Room; Bernard Rosenthal, Malibu, Calif., sculptures in main lobby and Star on the Roof; Scott Co., North Hollywood, plumbing, heating, and air conditioning in hotel and stores; Selectile Co., Inc., tile work in hotel and stores; Harold E. Shugart Co., Inc., acoustical treatment; John Smith, tapestry in Caribe Bar; Southwest Steel Rolling Mills, reinforcing steel and mesh in hotel and stores; Standard Cabinet Works, Inc., cabinet work in hotel; Steelform Contracting Co., formwork for metal pans and round columns; Stewart Manufacturing Co., Glendale, Calif., sun screens; Charles P. Stewart, Van Nuys, Calif., capa sheet Panels in Nordic Room; Strickley & Co., bandstand screen and main lobby screen; Thompson Glass & Paint Co., glass, glazing and aluminum work in hotel and stores; Tyre Bros. Glass & Paint Co., mirrors for bathroom doors for hotel and glazing in stores; United §tafl & Stone Co., Glendale, Calif., Red Lion room mantle and lamp post bases; Universal Corp., Dallas, Tex., aluminum windows for eighth-floor L'Escoffier and Star on the Roof; Universal Form Clamp Co., uniform panels for concrete work; Venetian Terrazzo & Mosaic Co., terrazzo work; Vernon Paving Co., asphalt concrete work; Waco May Co., scaffolding; C. D. Wailes Co., Sun Valley, Calif., mosaic panels in stores; Arthur W . Wohler Co., Pasadena, linen chute and rubbish chute.


RAIN WATER INUNDATED street and sidewalk in front of Webb Company offices, and lapped at front step. At rear of building it leaked through doors and covered floor of one office.

DAY AFTER STORM kids floated on inner tubes and frolicked in huge lake covering street in front of Webb Company plant, where many cars were stalled trying to negotiate it.

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It was a Friday afternoon in late July, and the last of the employees' cars which rolled away from the Phoenix offices of the Webb Company stirred up wisps ot dust in the dry avenue on which the construction firm's plant faces. A refreshing rain arrived that evening, but unlike most of the sudden summer-evening showers in Phoenix, this one didn't pass quickly. In 24 hours precipitation mounted to 1.64 inches. By Monday morning the total was over three inches, the heaviest consecutive rainstorm for the Arizona capital since 19II. City storm drains were far from adequate, and Webb Company workers returned Monday morning to find their heaquarters sitting in the middle of the lake pictured on this page.

HEAVY CONSTRUCTION SLED, beside which Paul Marks stands, was floated raft-like almost 100 yards across the Webb Company's warehouse yard by the storm waters.

EN ROUTE TO LUNCH, Pearl Richardson, receptionist at Phoenix offices, left her shoes behind and waded down street. A friendly motorist soon offered her a lift; even offered fo take her to lunch - and Pearl had left her shoes at the office, intending to simply get a sandwich at her father's home a few blocks away and then wade back to work.


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Former Webb Co. Employee Now Wears $10,000 Smile Remember Pamela Paulson, former secretary in the Webb Company's Los Angeles Office? She's wearing a $10,000 smile today as the top winner in the Los Angeles Examiner's "Who's W h o In TV" contest. But don't rush, fellows; she's no longer Miss Paulson, but now is Mrs. Pamela Polifroni, Burbank, Calif., mar

ried to a member of the band playing at the Moulin Rouge in Hollywood. Pamela said it was the first contest she ever

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predict the top 10 T V programs for the month of June. Next, winners were selected as to the greatest number of programs listed in the exact order in which they appeared on American Research Bureau listings for June. Finally the contestants gave their predictions on viewing ratings as compared to research bureau findings.

All 76 finalists had at least eight of the top 10 programs listed, but Pam was the only contestant who named four programs in the exact position and her predicted ratings also came closest to research bureau findings. "I'm sure I'm still dreaming," she declared as she received the $10,000 check.

Just Can't Get Away For three years Ralph Wanless of the Los Angeles office has been patiently constructing a new home, and he built it far enough out in the San Fernando Valley (23 miles from the Webb offices) that he wouldn't be bothered by smog or industry. He's about ready to move in, and while his hopes to escape the smog still look pretty good, North American now is ready to build a guided missile plant only a mile or so from Ralph's new hacienda. That will certainly aggravate the traffic problem.

PROUD POP. Joe Ashton, Webb Company vice-president and Phoenix district manager, is pictured with his baseball-playing twin sons, Tony, left, and Lynn Ashton, the evening their Phoenix Dodgers finished as runnersup for the Arizona Pony League championship, dropping a close 6-4 decision to Superior, Ariz., in the title game. Pony League is for youngsters 14 or younger. Tony Ashton is a catcher; Lynn a pitcher and second sacker. But Del Webb probably is going to have some questions about Joe Ashton rearing Dodgers instead of Yankees!

PAGE DICK TRACY I When Bob Becker recently was ill at home and Phoenix office employees wanted fo send a gift to cheer him up, they decided on a radio instead of flowers. But what a radio I It's as compact as a cigaret case and has an ear plug, presumably so that Becker can, for example, sit and watch a football game while he tunes in the World Series of baseball or picks up the scores of other games. Becker's secretary, Flo Olson, exhibits the little receiver to H. G. (Speedy) Winston, left, and Johnny Morton.


DIRECTORY t'Ct E WEEK

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PHOENIX OFFICE

302 South 23rd Avenue, P. O. Box 4066, Phoenix, Arizona, Phone ALpine 8-7441


H. E. Boice, Chief of Operations Kim Bannister F. S. Murray A. C. Jacobson, Sr. E. W. Flint T. E. Breen O. F. Childress J. W. Meeker

Bobby Spaulding Lorraine Greager Geraldine Hampton Alice Murdoch Evelyn Martin F. P. Kuentz J. W. Ford

W J. Miller, Business Manager H. G. Winston P. G. Marks J. L. Morton J. P. McLain Rosa M. Kort G. G. Grantham Rose Romano R. L. Reeves Emma Marie Miller


LOS ANGELES OFFICE

5101 San Fernando Road W., Los Angeles 39, Phone CHapman 5-2616

R. H. Johnson, Vice President and District Manager


Martha Little

D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager Enola Owens M. F. Chambers F. O. Langell Alice Stears M. F. Webb Beverly Often S. A. Grubbs E. B. York

Sallie Tucker

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE ol5 South Commonwealth Ave. Los Angeles, Calif. Phone Dunkirk 9-3631 G. A. Murray, Job Superintendent W. R. Foeht, Job Office Manager


SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, OFFICE 1131 Austin Highway San Antonio, Texas Phone TAylor 2-7701 W. A. Warriner, Mgr. of Job Operations

PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE 13th Ave. & Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone CRestwood 4-5828 Tom Gilbreath, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

SAN DIEGO, CALIF., OFFICE P. O. Box 9396 4724 Hidalgo Ave. San Diego 9, Calif. Phone BRoadway 3-6234 J. N. McPhee, Job Superintendent T. L. Rittenhouse, Job Engineer P. D. Clouthier, Job Office Manager W. C. Edmundson, Job Accountant


J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer C F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager

TUCSON, ARIZONA, OFFICE P. O. Box 7245, South Tucson Station Tucson, Arizona Phone 3-4002

T. G. Austin, Job Office Manager EL PASO, TEXAS, OFFICE P. O. Box 5097 6101-17 Montana St. El Paso, Texas Phone PRospect 8-2096

F. E. Warren, Job Superintendent R. T. White, Job Office Manager

PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE 19th Ave. and Thomas Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Tom Gilbreath, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE Central Ave. and Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone CRestwood 4-9742


Farm Life Has Problems At least a couple of the gentlemen

"farmers" of the Los Angeles office are having their difficulties. Ed Davies' dog got a bit too frisky and attacked one of his sheep, injuring it so severely that Ed wasn't certain he could save it. And Bob Johnson recently made the mistake of wandering barefoot out to the stables to feed his ducks, rooster, burro and horses; and the pet burro, Josephine, stepped on one of his feet, fracturing one of Bob's toes. Latest addition to the Johnson menagerie is a fighting cock.

Even Smog Looked Good Back from the Midwest in early

August came Del Webb, glad to see even the Los Angeles smog, after enjoying what is quaintly called "Chicago in the sweaty season." In Chicago, while he endeavored to attend to both construction and baseball business, as well as other varied interests, it hadn't been just the heat, which was stifling, but it was the humidity that made it unbearable. The air, both inside and out, was hot, dead, muggy. Three or four showers a day were a necessity, insisted Webb, and once he had to take a walk in the park in the middle of the night because he couldn't sleep.








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Industrial Editors

Greetings and best wishes from The Webb Spinner to the following employees who observe birthday anniversaries during August: Fred McDowell, Phoenix . . Aug. 4 Owen Childress, Phoenix . . Aug. 15 Everett B. York, Los Angeles Aug. 24 Jack Ford, Phoenix Aug. 26

Came Home To Rest Up Jerry McLain of the Phoenix office,

with his wife and three daughters, drove to the west coast on a vacation visit with his parents in Glendale, Calif., and Rosanne's parents in Mill Valley, across the Golden Gate from San Francisco. They also called at the Los Angeles office. They found California weather ranging from warm to chilly, the smog occasionally worrisome, and they were glad to get the kids home (eldest of the trio is 3V2) so that they (the parents) could rest up.

Junior Yankees Second That Webb Company entry of the

Yankees in the Madison No. 1 kids' baseball league finished in second place, with 13 wins, two ties and three defeats, being shaded only by the Indians, who had 14 wins, two ties and two losses. Two of the three Yankee losses were to the Indians, and they also tied the champs twice. Elmer Ward, a former Webb Company employee, managed the club and Herb Lindner was coach.

Vol. 9, No. 9 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, SEPTEMBER, 1955 Twelve Pages

UPTOWN PLAZA, viewed from Central Avenue, is in effect a giant department store operated by more than a score of individual store owners, each offering personal service and, among all, a great variety of merchandise. View below from Camelback Road shows part ot the throng of cars which filled the big parking area the day the shopping center was opened.

Modern New Shopping Center, Uptown Plaza, Is Opened In Phoenix Biggest development of its kind in the Phoenix metropolitan area, the new $4!/2 million dollar Uptown Plaza shopping center built and largely owned by the Del E. Webb Construction Co. was opened on August 25 to thousands of eager visitors who came to look, to shop, and to establish some surprising opening-day sales figures with their purchases.

Hailed by its builders and owners as one of the most modern and largest shopping centers in the Southwest, Uptown Plaza is located on a 10-acre plot at the busy North Phoenix intersection of Central Avenue and Camelback Road, in one of the fastest growing urban areas of Arizona's capital city.

Twenty-three stores, shops and restaurants are located in the L-shaped structure covering more than 125,000 square feet of floor space. Facing a 600-automobile parking lot, the east wing has a 510-foot spread and the north wing of the center stretches 450 feet. Uptown has 613 feet frontage on North Central Avenue, with three entrances and exits, and 645 feet on Camelback with another three entrances and exits.

Designed by H. H. Green, Phoenix architect, Uptown Plaza is of one-story masonry construction, contemporary in design, and attractively landscaped. Individual stores are faced with stone, brick, marble and ceramic tile, and store fronts are so varied in design that they possess individuality while still blending in a pleasing effect.

All Uptown Plaza stores are leased to individual operators, and the shopping center is owned by the Webb Company and its leasing agent, Roy


THE WEBB SPINNER -er, 1955

BAN ON PARKING at 5th and Boylston Sts. in downtown Los Angeles is hardly temporary, as sign on post indicates. It is at the edge of site where Webb Company has started construction of $20,000,000 Union Oil Center, and tor at least the next two years there'll be so much activity there that automobile parking would be an impossibility. Pictured, inspecting site, are (from left) Neil Drinkward, Webb Company job superintendent; Roy C. Nichols, Union Oil representative on the project, and Patrick L. Lawless, project architect for the Los Angeles architectural-engineering firm of Pereira & Luckman.

VIEW ACROSS SITE on afternoon of same day photo above was taken shows smog has lifted somewhat and business district is more easily discernible. Earth-moving is proceeding just beyond tons of steel piling stockpiled on site.

Union Oil Center Construction Begins Truckload after truckload of freshly-excavated soil was rolling off the new Union Oil Center site in downtown Los Angeles this month as the Del E. Webb Construction Co. began erection of the $20,000,000 west coast headquarters for Union Oil Company of California.

First big task was the moving of almost 400,000 cubic yards of earth, for an underground garage will permit parking of 1,500 automobiles on three levels below the ground floor of the height-limit home office building and three auxiliary office and service units at Union Oil Center.

But long before the last truckload of earth has rolled away, to be used as fill in Los Angeles freeway construction, Supt. Neil Drinkward will have excavated, formed and poured exterior walls of the big Union Oil Center, for he has a problem of supporting earth banks as high as 70 feet in some places while erecting such walls on below-ground levels of the garage. Getting those walls formed and poured in deep, 10-foot-wide trenches will be Drinkward's first major task.

The Union Oil Project was launched in the midst of a late-August Los Angeles heat wave that saw the mercury zoom to a record-breaking 110 one day, and for eight straight days baked the city with above-100 degree daytime temperatures. Smog frequently added to the discomfort.

Working closely with Drinkward on the project are Roy C. Nichols, representing Union Oil, and Patrick L. Lawless, representing the architect-engineers, Pereira and Luckman of Los Angeles.

The Webb Company staff headed by Drinkward includes Apollo Guizot as job engineer, W . R. Foeht as job office manager, and W . C. Edmund-son as job accountant. Robert H. Johnson, Los Angeles manager for the Webb Company and Edward T. Davies, his chief of operations, are directly in charge of the construction.

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DEMOLITION BEGINS on Los Angeles headquarters building ot Ford J. Twaits Construction Co., which occupies a portion of the Union Oil site. New Twaits building is under construction in another part of city. Entrance to underground garage at Union Oil Center will be through area in foreground where demolishing of Twaits building began. PHOTO PANEL BELOW shows (at left) some of debris which must be cleared from site during earth moving and (at right) view from top of nearby hotel building showing progress of excavation during first week of September, and the stockpile ot 100 carloads of steel — about 1,000 tons — which will be required for pilings alone.

EXCAVATION and construction of a new sewer line progresses along Boylston Street in front ot the Webb Company job office. But this was no ordinary sewer building project, for the trench ranged from depth of 32 feet on downward, and it was getting a lot of attention from Neil Drinkward, Webb superintendent on Union Oil Center. Drinkward was making a close study of the earth formations the sewer builders encountered, for Neil would have to excavate as deep as 70 feet to erect some exterior walls on the new building, and he could see what might prove some weighty problems ahead.

THE WEBB SPINNER September, 1955

Uptown Plaza Now Sets Pace In Growth of Phoenix Suburban Areas

AIR VIEW shows magnitude of Uptown Plaza shopping center built by the Webb Company, and the parked cars of a throng of shoppers on hand shortly before noon on opening day. The L-shaped structure has a working floor area of more than 125,000 square feet.

More Than Score Of Phoenix Firms Help Create New Shopping Center Some veteran employees of the Del

E. Webb Construction Co. and more than a score of Phoenix firms had a part in the building of the modern Uptown Plaza shopping center.

Job superintendent was Fred McDowell, who came to the project after superintending construction of St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix and completing the Webb Company's building assignment at Travis Air Force Base near San Francisco.

Kim Bannister was operations man on the job, serving as liaison between owners, architect, subcontractors and the construction force. Milford T. Rigg was job office manager.

Overseeing the project was Howard E. Boice, chief of operations at the Phoenix office.

Subcontractors, all Phoenix firms, and the work they performed, included : Acme Materials Co., ready-mix concrete and asphallic concrete paving; Allison Steel Mfg. Co., structural steel and ornamental iron; Arizona York Refrigeration

Co., ductwork and healing for Bostrom and Jerand stores; Cannon and Watson Electric Co., electrical work; Climate Control Co., heating and air conditioning for Gallen-Kamp's; Daggett Tile & Marble Co., ceramic tile and marble; Hallmark Construction Co., sanitary sewer system; Frank Harmonson Co., heating, refrigeration and ductwork in McCrary's Drug and Given Bros.; Hoffman Plastering Co., lathing and plastering; Johnson Bros. Mfg. Co., ductwork in Piggly Wig-gly; Master Terrazzo Contracting Co., terrazzo work; Newhall Brothers Co., heating and air conditioning in Grant's; Southwest

Masonry, Inc., masonry work; Southwest Sash & Door Co., glass, glazing, aluminum entrances and trim, millwork;

Standard Roofing & Supply Co., roofing and waterproofing; Standard Sheet Metal Works, sheet metal installation; Sun Control Blind & Tile Co., asphalt tile installation; Universal Dry wall Co., sheetrock installation; Frank L. Walters, painting contract; Warren Sales Co., acoustical tile; J. H. Welsh & Sons Contracting Co., plumbing; J. L. Wilkerson Crane & Rigging Co., demolition and excavation; Williams Insulation Co., thermal insulation.

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Six of the 23 Uptown businesses were in operation before the official opening. Navarre's restaurant opened Jan. 27, long in advance of completion of the main shopping center, and now is recognized as one of the city's finest dining places. A Piggly Wiggly supermarket, one of the state's largest food markets; Given Bros., shoes and women's apparel; Bostrom's, homeware, gifts and china; Petty's jewelry, and Milder's, children's wear, opened in mid-August.

Other Uptown businesses, most of which were in operation on official opening day, include Porter's, Dolphin Book Store, W . T. Grant Co., Maternity Modes, Jerand's, Bill's Records, Two-In-One Massage Equipment Co., Kamera Korner, Gallen-Kamp's, Helsing's Coffee Shop, Mc-Crary's Drugs, Ken Flowers Men's Store, Lou Ann's Dress Shop, Towne Fashions, and Liefgreen and McDonald, florists.

The W.T. Grant Co. store at Uptown is the 541st in the national chain but its first in Arizona. It is designed to make one-stop shopping possible with four varieties of stores combined in its 35 departments. The Piggly Wiggly supermart, with 22,500 square feet of floor space, is another •sinit of a national chain, but locally owned and managed.

OPENING NIGHT ceremonies at Uptown Plaza included lively music by Rudy Barrigan and his orchestra, and (below) a radio broadcast from the scene by Jack Williams, at right, program director of Radio Station KOY, during which he interviewed Harold L. Jacobs, center, president of the Uptown Plaza Marchants Association, and Roy P. Drachman, Tucson realtor, one of the owners of the shopping center and its leasing agent.

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GIVEN BROTHERS adds a note of excellence in modern apparel and footwear service to the people of Arizona. Eighth store in the Given Bros, chain, it is decorated with murals of Indian tribal dancers.

THE DOLPHIN Book and Stationery Store offers, besides books, a variety of wedding papers, greeting cards, party needs, gift and desk accessories, and also operates a lending library for its patrons.

PORTERS, though established in 1875 as a saddle business, features in its new ninth outlet, not saddles, but men's and women's apparel, sportswear, western clothing, shoes, luggage, leather goods and chi/drn's wear.

MILDER'S Childrens Store offers a complete line of clothing and furniture for children from infancy to school age. A "little door" in front ot the shop next to the conventional-size door, is exclusively for kiddies.

TOWNE FASHIONS stocks dresses in regular and junior sizes and offers apparel in medium to higher-price brackets, emphasizing dressier, 'afters' fashions, although sportswear also is available.

MATERNITY MODES, fifth outlet in a chain extending into three states, caters fo the mother-to-be with a wide selection of separates, pedal pushers, tapered caprice slacks, dusters, bras, lingerie and accessories.

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PIGGLY WIGGLY, with 22,500 square feet of floor area and nine check-out stands, is one of Phoenix' largest supermarkets and, though it uses the internationally-known Piggly Wiggly trade name, is locally owned and managed.

JERAND'S, stressing quality in its wide selection, offers a complete line of women's wear, coats, suits, dresses and furs; also handles sportswear, gifts, jewelry, luggage, shoes, infants, sub-teen and junior fashions.

BOSTROM'S, with a six-color decoration scheme, is one of the city's most beautiful hardware stores; offers also china, crystal and gifts, houseware, toys and sporting goods; even has a bride's registry.

KEN FLOWERS Store for Men offers suits, haberdashery and accessories, and a large line of gift merchandise for men. It carries national brands, and prices range from medium to upper-bracket, with emphasis on quality.

PETTY'S JEWELERS, styled the first store of its kind and size outside the downtown Phoenix business district, offers fine diamonds, watches, clocks, varied jewelry, other merchandise, and expert watch repair.

LIEFGREEN & McDONALD, a leader in the Valley of the Sun florist business, offers an extensive selection of cut flowers, floral, garden and pet supplies; has three designers on its staff fo execute artistic floral arrangements.


PORTRAIT . Dale Griffith, assistant business manager, visited a portrait photographer recently for the first time in more than 10 years, and the result is shown above. And they probably wouldn't have inveigled Dale into a portrait studio even then except that he recently joined the Glendale Rotary Club (his first service club affiliation), and the club needed a photograph for its membership roster. Now an enthusiastic Rotarian, Dale already has been named to the club's Fellowship Committee. His first duty: Glad-handing fellow Rotarians as they arrive at each week's luncheon meeting. o

Can't Lose On Shows Paul Marks, purchasing agent for

the Webb Company, and wife, Cecile, hied themselves up to the San Francisco area to get chilled a bit, sauntered over for a look at Yosemite, and then came leisurely home via Reno and Las Vegas, where they enjoyed some of the top entertainment offered with meals at the big resort hotels.

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operations department secretarial staff is pretty well known for a couple of idiosyncracies — driving fast cars and making spur-of-the-moment decisions. She had fully intended to spend her summer vacation at her home in Chandler, but two days before beginning the layoff she decided she should get a little of that broadening they say goes with travel. Came vacation time and she hopped aboard an airliner for her first airplane trip, and spent her time seeing the sights in New York and Chicago before returning refreshed to her job.

Del Webb To Accompany Yankees On World Jaunt The weather around Phoenix was still warm in early September, but no warmer than the battle between N e w York's Yankees, Chicago's White Sox, Cleveland's Indians and Boston's Red Sox over the American League championship and the right to battle the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series.

Del Webb, Yankee owner, had what he considered a very simple formula for getting the Bombers into the Series: Beat the Indians and the White Sox!

But whether or not his Yankees annexed another pennant, Webb was getting ready to see a lot of baseball. He planned to be on hand for the World Series starting Sept. 28, regardless of who was participating, and then — looking still farther ahead — he was preparing to join the Yankees on an exhibition baseball tour around the world beginning Oct. 8. The U. S. State Department per

suaded the Yankee owners and the ball club to set up the overseas junket, which begins Oct. 9 from the west coast. The Yankees will play six games in 10 days in Hawaii, 16 games in 27 days in Japan, and two each in Manila and Okinawa. Some of the games will be exclusively for service personnel, who will be admitted without charge. Dan Topping, co-owner with Mr. Webb of the Yankee club, is tentatively planning to go, his health permitting, and Manager Casey Stengel and George Weiss, general manager, also will accompany the club. Most players will take their wives.

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Calif., attracted vacationing secretary Bobby Spaulding of the Phoenix office and her daughter, Toni. They looked over the company's San Diego housing project, visited personnel there, and visited interesting spots in La Jolla. Daughter Toni also found many subjects on the seacoast for her sketchbook and palette, for she is an aspiring artist.

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Ah-h-h-h! Those Steaks! Probably the champion long-dis

tance traveler among the Phoenix office summer vacationists was Gene Flint of the operations department. He bundled his wife, Adelaide; daughter, Janie, 14, and son, Chuck, 10, into the family station wagon and pointed it northward. When they were back in Phoenix after 5,200 miles of travel they had visited Salt Lake City and the Mormon Temple, l Yellowstone Park, Glacier Park, I Banff and Lake Louise, Jasper National Park and the Columbia ice fields, Grand Coulee Dam, Seattle, Mount Ranier National Park, Crater Lake in Oregon and a number of west coast cities. Most vivid memor- ' ies for Gene: the magnificent scenery and the thick steaks, available at economical prices, which he enjoyed during a 10-day Canadian visit. And he lauded the friendliness of Canadian people. He snapped more than 125 color slides and has promised a ") special showing for Webb Company friends.

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tune magazine, that a Bronx cobbler by the name of Gino Prato has done more to dramatize the workings of ' the high-bracket income tax laws than all the learned treatises that have been published on this subject. Mr. Prato decided to accept the $32,000 he won on a television quiz program rather than risk losing all by trying to answer a $64,000 ques- . tion. Says Fortune: Mr. Prato, under present tax laws, was at least sure of retaining $21,000. Had he answered the final question correctly he could have kept only $13,480 more. To gamble so much for so little would obviously have been foolhardy, but the same kind of calculus must sometimes discourage businessmen from pushing on toward larger rewards.

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spent most of her summer vacation time "cleaning house — and that kept me real busy", but when pressed she'll admit that she motored to a ranch home of friends near Scottsdale, and did some dining out. including lunch in Hotel Westward Ho's Concho Room, dinner at Navarre's (What? In a cocktail ( lounge?) and at a new Chinese restaurant. Really living it up, her friends claim.

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Reputation Of Pair In The Kitchen Now Is Firmly Established It all began in the Sunday comics. There, in Phoenix Cartoonist Walt Ditzen's nationally-syndicated "Fan Fare" was a jaunty fellow wearing a chef's cap and apron, marinating a couple of big steaks according to his super-secret formula and then barbecuing them on an outdoor grill while he boasted that "Nobody gets this formula from me!"

Then, through the cloud of smoke surrounding the barbecue grill, the wife calls: "Charlie! Mr. Becker just phoned —•"

"What's old Nosey want?" demands the busy chef.

"He says they're planning a yard party —

"Here it comes!" remarks Charlie, knowing full well that "Mr. Becker" must want his secret formula.

" — and would you quit burning rubbish!" concludes Charlie's wife.

The scene closes with Charlie exclaiming: "I hate neighbors ! !"

Well, the cartoon strip was good for a laugh all around, and it proved unusually popular with a legion of Phoenix friends of Robert A. Becker, Webb Company secretary, and C. G. Sullivan of Cash, Sullivan and Cross, Phoenix insurance agency which handles many of the construction firm's insurance problems.

Charlie Sullivan and Bob Becker are two long-time friends, neighbors out on picturesque Glenn Drive, and generally thick as flies. Their friend, Cartoonist Ditzen, had made them the subjects of his Sunday strip.

Then the local papers took it up, Charlie and Bob were interviewed, photographed — as witness the accompanying picture which appeared in the Phoenix Gazette — and persuaded to detail their way of putting together their favorite sandwiches.

Columnist Maggie Savoy of the

Gazette even published Charlie's

steak-marinating recipe, that is, all

except his "secret" condiment, viz:

Marinate steaks for two hours in a

mixture of soy sauce, prepared

mustard, powdered sage, Worcester

shire sauce, a few dashes of tobasco,

black pepper and powdered garlic.

That's it, plus that added spice, which

Sullivan won't tell Becker, and Dun

can won't tell Hines.

Saw Disneyland And Hilton Disneyland and the swank new

Beverly Hilton Hotel were vacation goals for John Morton of the Phoenix office accounting department and his wife, Ruth. They sojourned a time in San Diego (saw the A. C. Jacobsons, Jr., at a motel there and visited the company's San Diego job site), and then moved up to the Los Angeles area to look over Disneyland for a full day and an evening. Quite a fun-land, reports John, but still crowded if you want to get on the rides. At the Beverly Hilton they dined and visited the Bali Room, Star on the Roof, and toured other public rooms in the lavish hostelry.

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Caution is when you're afraid; Cowardice when the other fellow's afraid.

News About Tom Lambie Word has been received from Tom

Lambie, former assistant to Bob Becker at the Phoenix office and now assistant golf pro at the Westmoreland Country Club in Export, Pa. Tom says he's been busy giving golf lessons due to the fact that Club Pro Johnny Bulla has been away much of the summer. Subsequent press dispatches reported that Bulla has resigned his Westmoreland post and will return to Phoenix in mid-October. H o w this will affect Tom's job hasn't been learned, but he is expected back in Phoenix this fall.

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DIRECTORY DEI E.WEBB

Del E. Webb, President L. C Jacobson, Executive Vice President and General Manager


PHOENIX OFFICE

302 South 23rd Avenue, P. O. Box 4066, Phoenix, Arizona, Phone ALpine 8-7441 >. R. Ashton, Vice President and District Manager

H. E. Boice, Chief of Operations Kim Bannister F. S. Murray A. C Jacobson, Sr. E. W. Flint T. E. Breen O. F. Childress J. W. Meeker

J. W. Ford Bobby Spaulding Lorraine Greager Geraldine Hampton Alice Murdoch Evelyn Martin F. P. Kuentz T. L. Rittenhouse

W. J. Miller, Business Manager H. G. Winston P. G. Marks J. L. Morton J. P. McLain Rosa M. Kort G. G. Grantham Rose Romano R. L. Reeves Emma Marie Miller


LOS ANGELES OFFICE

5101 San Fernando Road W., Los Angeles 39, California, Phone CHapman 5-2616 R. H. Johnson, Vice President and District Manager

E. T. Davies, Chief of Operations D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager C H Dean R. C Hinton Enola Owens M. F. Chambers E. H. Smith, Jr. Ralph Wanless F. O. Langell Alice Stears G A. Anderson F. W. Danielson M. F. Webb Beverly Often

Martha Little S. A. Grubbs E. B. York George Shaw Saille Tucker Gerald Harris Freda McDonald

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE Fifth 8, Boylston Sts. Los Angeles, Calif., Phone Michigan 2906 C D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer W. R. Foeht, Job Office Manager W. C Edmundson, Job Accountant

SAM ANTONIO, TEXAS, OFFICE 1131 Austin Highway San Antonio, Texas Phoi3 TAylor 2-7701

W. A. Warriner, Mgr. of Job Operations J. S. Aubin, Job Office Manager

PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE 13th Ave. & Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone CRjstwood 4-5828 Tom Gilbreath, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager


T. G. Austin, Job Office Manager PALO ALTO, CALIF., OFFICE 21 1 Town & Country Village Palo Alto, Calif. Phone DAvenport 4-4751 Axel Johnson, Director of Planning

PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE '9th Av3. and Thomas Rd. Pho?nix Arizona

K?nt Hamer, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF., OFFICE 9973 Santa Monica Blvd. Baverly Hills, Calif. Phone BRadshaw 2-8153

I. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations M. D. Stevens, Job Superintendent Cecil Drinkward, Job Engineer C F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager


EL PASO, TEXAS, OFFICE P. O. Eox 5097 6101-17 Montana St. El Paso, Texas Phon? PRospect 8-2096 F. E. Warren, Job Superintendent R. T. White, Job Office Manager

PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE Central Ave. and Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone CRestwood 4-9742 F. L. McDowell, Job Superintendent M. T. Rigg, Job Office Manager

SAN DIEGO, CALIF., OFFICE P. O. Box 9396 4724 Hidalgo Ave. San Diego 9, Calif. Phone BRoadway 3-6234 J. N. McPhee, Job Superintendent P. D. Clouthier, Job Office Manager

Pop Really Got Around Uncontested postcard king of the

Webb Company is A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, who "kept 'em coming" to all his friends and coworkers while he vacationed this summer in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and even got into Canada. Pop enjoyed lots of loafing, some fishing, much sightseeing, and some baseball during his junket of almost a month. He visited with Casey Stengel and sat right behind the Yankee dugout while watching the Bombers in three games at Chicago (heartbreaking for Pop, for the Yanks won only one of the three). Then he went up to Marshfield, Wis.,

to visit a sister, Mrs. Mabel'Luis, and with her and friends set out on a motor tour that took them into the lake and resort district of Central Wisconsin, through forested areas extending into Minnesota, through Du-luth and along the beautiful Lake Superior shores, into the prairie and farming country, to Grand Forks, N. D., then on to Winnipeg, Can., Brandon, Can., and back via Devils Lake, N. D., Fargo, St. Paul and on

to Marshfield. From this Wisconsin

community Pop also made a couple

of 100-mile jaunts into the paper mill

country and areas where he saw large

cranberry marshes and many mink

farms.

Volume 9 September, 1955

Published by the DEL E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO.

302 South 23rd Ave. Phoenix, Arizona



No. 9

Del E. Webb R. A. Becker

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE

Amy Jo Hafford

EDITOR Jerry McLain

REPORTERS H. G. Winston, Phoenix

A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix John Morton, Phoenix

Dale Griffith, Los Angeles CIRCULATION MANAGER Kara Caroline (Casey) Newell



Industrial Editors

L. C Jacobson W . J.Miller

He may be a bit reluctant to admit another anniversary has almost arrived, but the editor includes himself among the group to whom the Webb Spinner this month extends congratulations because their birthdays will occur during October. They are:

W. A. Warriner, San Antonio Oct. 9

Tom J. Rittenhouse, Phoenix Oct. 12

Russell Armstrong, Phoenix Oct. 12

William R. Foeht, L. A Oct. 15

Gladys Sanders, Phoenix Oct. 16

Edwin H. Smith, L. A Oct. 19

G. A. Anderson, L. A Oct. 28

Jerry McLain, Phoenix Oct. 29

And our September birthdays, unintentionally omitted from the August issue:

Fred P. Kuentz, L. A Sept. 14 Alice Murdoch, Phoenix ...Sept. 14 Rose Romano, Phoenix Sept. 20

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Vacations In New Home Secretary A m y Jo Hafford of the

Phoenix office spent her summer va

cation getting settled in a beautiful

new home in Encanto Estates, on

19th Avenue near Thomas Road and

only about five minutes driving time

from the Webb Company headquar-

:ers. N o w she's busy pulling weeds,

tilling ants and trying to get the

awn to grow. 'Tis said Amy is a

traffic-stopper when she gets out in

the front yard in shorts to attack

those weeds.

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Vol. 9, No. 10 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, OCTOBER, 1955 16 Pages

Skyscraper Housing, First In Phoenix, Will Be Built By Webb Co. Arizona's first skyscraper apartment structure will be built at Phoenix by the Del E. Webb Construction Co.

The 14-story, 64-apartment building will be erected soon at North Central Avenue and Monte Vista Road on a 10-acre site which was once the Dwight B. Heard estate and home of a pioneer Phoenix newspaper publisher and owner.

To be known as Phoenix Towers, the $21/£ million project is expected to be completed within 12 months after ground breaking. Construction will start as soon as 32 of the 64 cooperative apartments have been sold. Prices of the apartments, all of which


CONSTRUCTION DETAILS of a $2Vi million dollar Phoenix apartments project to be known as Phoenix Towers were revealed this month at a dinner in the Arizona capital city attended by these principals, (from left): Ralph W. Applegate, Chicago and Phoenix businessman and one of the sponsors; Del E. Webb, president of the construction firm which will erect the structure; Arnold M. Johnson, of Chicago, another sponsor, and Ralph C. Harris, Chicago, the architect. — (Phoenix Gazette Photo).

INSPECTING Texas motor hotel construction projects of his firm. Gen. Mgr. L. C. Jacobson of the Webb Company, center, is pictured at El Paso with F. E. Warren, right, superintendent on the Flamingo Hotel job there, and W. A. (Bill) Warriner, left, manager of job operations on motor hotels being built at El Paso and San Antonio.

Texas Motor Hotels Nearing Completion Two new Texas motor hotels, part of a multi-million dollar Webb Company building program in three states for the Flamingo Hotel system, will go into operation next month.

They are the El Paso Flamingo, a 134-unit motor hotel of the most modern design, and the 100-unit San Antonio Flamingo, which will be a colorful addition to the self-styled Texas "City of Contrasts." Both were being pushed toward completion by Webb

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THE WEBB SPINNER October,J955

Luxury 'Downtown Homes' To Be Offered By Phoenix Towers

ARCHITECT'S VERSION of the imposing 14-story Phoenix Towers apartments which will rise soon on one of the Arizona capital's most fashionable avenues. Four radiating towers will be ioined centrally for elevator and hall service. The building will have 64 co-operatively-owned apartments and will cost about $2' ? million. The drawing is by Ralph C. Harris, Chicago architect.

Two- And Three-Bedroom Units To Be Built In Co-operative Phoenix Towers Apartments

The 14-story Phoenix Towers will offer apartment owners a selection of floor plans which will include five-and 5^-room apartments with two bedrooms, and one basic type of deluxe three-bedroom unit.

Each of the 64 apartments will have its own large balcony terrace, individual air conditioning and heating systems, and one-car or two-car fire

proof carports as part of the pur

chase price.

Doorman service, servants' locker

and dressing rooms, first floor stor

age space, laundry facilities, and a

receiving room are among special

features to be furnished all tenants

by the building owners and operators.

Apartments will cost $30,000 to

$58,000 to purchase, depending upon size and location. The cooperative sales plan calls for a payment of 60 per cent of equity purchase, prior to occupancy, and the balance can be paid in monthly installments over 20 years.

As an example, the purchaser of a $30,000 apartment would pay $18,000

down, after which monthly payments

of $155 would cover payment on

principal, interest and all operating

costs.

In addition to the main building,

there will be a large swimming pool

and 28 individually-owned cabanas

in a two-story structure on the Monte

Vista side. Other recreational fea

tures will be a nine hole putting green,

four shuffleboard courts, and children's play area.

Besides the carports for tenant-owners, there will be 30 off-street parking spaces provided for guests.

Chicagoans Visit Rose Romano Rose Romano, secretary to Bus.

Mgr. W . J. Miller at the Phoenix office, has been busy entertaining company from Chicago, including a brother, Tony; another brother, Leonard and Mrs. Romano and their two children, Jimmy, 4, and Bobby, 2, and Mrs. Leonard Romano's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Graffeo. Rose accompanied them on a motor tour to California several days during which they visited friends in Riverside, toured Disneyland, saw a George Gobel telecast and dined at

Ciro's in Hollywood.

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SITE OF PHOENIX TOWERS is a 10-acre, palm-studded tract on North Central Avenue at Monte Vista Road. It once was the Dwight B. Heard estate, and the early-day mansion which stood there was one of Pthoenix' show-places, the home of a pioneer Phoenician who owned and published the city's morning newspaper from 1912 to 1929.

Webb Co. To Erect Phoenix's First Skyscraper Apartments

(Continued from Page 1) will be sold, will range from $30,000

to $58,000.

Sponsors of the luxury "downtown

homes" structure include Ralph W .

Applegate of Chicago and Phoenix,

proprietor of White Rock Bottling

Co. of Arizona; J. Arthur Friedlund,

Chicago attorney and secretary of the

New York Yankees, and Arnold M.

Johnson of Chicago and Kansas City,

owner of the Kansas City Athletics of

the American League, vice chairman

of the board of Automatic Canteen

Co. of America, and holder of wide

spread real estate properties in the

East.

All three men have been frequent

visitors in the valley and are close

friends of Mr. Webb.

Three corporations have been set

up to handle the ownership, building.

and operations of the sponsoring syn

dicate. They are Phoenix Towers Co

operative Apartments, Inc., Central

Avenue Properties, Inc., and Apple-

gate Realty and Investment Co. Presi

dent of the Phoenix Towers corpora

tion is W . Roy Wayland, honorary

board chairman of the Valley Na

tional Bank, and he has contracted

for the top apartment in the 14-story

structure.

When the project was announced

early this month at a dinner given in

Phoenix by the owners, Applegate

said 15 of the residential units had

been assigned prospective owners,

and that he believed the remainder

of the first 32 would be sold so that

construction could begin soon after

the first of the year. "We want the

building completed in the early spring

of 1957," he added.

Applegate announced that financ

ing had been possible through co

operation of the First National Bank

of Arizona and Valley National Bank,

and that the permanent loan on the

property would be owned by Mutual

Benefit Life Insurance Co. of New

ark, N.J. Hugh C. Gruwell, board

chairman of First National Bank of

Arizona, plans to purchase one of the

apartment homes.

In addition to his interest in the

Arizona White Rock firm, Applegate

owns the A B C Ranch in Paradise

Valley near Scottsdale, and is presi

dent of the real estate firm bearing

his name in Chicago and the Casualty

Mutual Insurance Co. of Chicago.

A sponsor of other apartment proj

ects in Chicago, Applegate told inter

ested Phoenicians that the Phoenix

Towers site, for so many years a

showplace when the Heard family re

sided there, would again become the

location of a magnificent structure in

which Arizonans could take pride.

He described North Central Avenue

in terms of what Lakeshore Drive is

to Chicago, a thoroughfare of a high-

class residential district. He predicted

the apartments structure would be the

forerunner of many similar projects

in Phoenix.

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Close To The Alamo, Webb Co. Builds New San Antonio Motel

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INSPECTION OF PROGRESS in construction of 100-unit motor hotel at San Antonio, Tex. for the Flamingo Hotel chain was made in late September by L. C. Jacobson, Webb Company general manager. He is pictured being shown over project by W. A. (Bill) Warriner, left, manager of job operations. Excavation in foreground is for swimming pool.

SPACIOUS GLASS FRONTS will be a feature ot each ot the units In the two-story structure conveniently located on busy U. S. 81, the Austin highway.

EXTERIOR WALLS of motor hotel restaurant and lobby are of attractive stone, broken only by large window areas.


SAN ANTONIO FLAMINGO, pictured from across the Austin highway on which it fronts, will be opened in November. It stands at the gateway to romantic, old San Antonio, with its quaint Latin atmosphere and a balmy climate in which roses bloom the year 'round in the shelter of swaying palms. In the heart of the city stands the Alamo, an ivy-clad monument to an historic tight for liberty.

OFFICE STAFF on San Antonio job includes Joe Aubin, left, office manager who has served on a number of Webb Company projects, and Doris Mae Gutke, receptionist-secretary.

She Knows Her Golf Both Bill Warriner and Joe Aubin

of the Webb Company's San Antonio, Tex., motor hotel construction crew are aspiring golfers, but they aren't going to give any links arguments to Secretary Doris Mae Gutke at their project office. She recently teamed with Jim Bradford, a former L.S.U. football player, and they won third honors in a field of 176 contestants in a two-day invitational golf tournament at the Beeville Country Club in Beeville, Tex. They racked up a best-ball, three-under-par 69 the first day, and came through to cap that with a nine-under-par 63 the second day. Boy, what it must have taken to win that

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OVERSEEING crews of workmen handling different phases of the San Antonio Flamingo construction are the men pictured above, from left: P. W. Scherer, superintendent for Webb; C. P. Hunt, masonry foreman; Charlie Cherry, labor foreman; Jess C. Gillis, Jr., electrical foreman; S. R. McCulloch, carpentry foreman; C. R. Wootan, plumbing foreman, and E. L. Vanskike, who is directing roofing work.

Hugh Mooney Reports Word comes that Hugh Mooney,

former job office manager on the Webb Company's Kansas City V A Hospital project, now is traveling auditor and accountant for Massman

Construction Co. of Kansas City, Mo.

His most recent assignment was on a

navigation lock construction job near

Eutaw, Alabama.

Secretaries To Study When the Valley of the Sun

(Phoenix) chapter of the National

Secretaries Association scheduled a

one-day secretarial workshop at Ho

tel Westward Ho in Phoenix for Oct. 22. Webb Company officials offered to sponsor the attendance of any of its interested secretaries. Acceptance came quickly from A m y Jo Hafford. Flo Olson. Gerrv Hampton. Lorraine Greager. Marie Miller. Evelyn Martin. Alice Murdoch. Mary Moss and Bobby Spaulding. whose daughter. Toni. also planned to attend. Mrs. Spaulding is a member of the association and editor of the Phoenix chapter's magazine. "Cactus Quotes."

A sure way to be popular is to prove yourself as versatile as weather, and you'll be a favorite topic of conversation.


Flamingo Chain Extends Hotel Operations Into El Paso, Texas

LOOKING OVER million-dollar Flamingo Motor Hotel (above) due to be completed and opened in El Paso, Tex., next month are W. A. Warriner, manager of job operations; L. C. Jacobson, Webb Company general manager, and F. E. Warren, job superintendent.

CONSTRUCTION DETAILS are discussed by Operations Man Warriner, left, with Mike Robinson, one of the Flamingo owners and managing director of the chain's hosfelries; Jerry < UJJJJT Wolf, who will operate the restaurant at the El Paso inn, and Al Nunley of the Flamingo staff.

DIRECTING WORK on the El Paso project were members of crew pictured at right. They are (standing, from left): Bill Russell, electrical foreman; Jack Jacobs of Houston, foreman on swimming pool construction; Jack Barhemeyer, foreman, plumbing and heating; J. V. Mc-Neme, president of McNeme-Nyman, which built swimming pool; Frank Warren, Webb Company job superintendent; John McNaughton, sheet-rock foreman; John Greer, Tucson, painting foreman; (front row, from left): Bob White, job office manager; Bob Hargrove, carpenter foreman; Gareth Bingham and Jesus Or-nales, labor foremen, and Hiram House, plumbing and heating crew superintendent.

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OVERALL VIEW of the 134-unit El Paso Flamingo is shown above. Five miles east of downtown El Paso on the highway leading to Carlsbad, N.M., it overlooks the border city and neighboring Mexico. Photo at right is a view from one of the spacious units on the second floor, and view below shows the double-decked portion of the hotel, with each unit having its own sun deck. Steel stairways weren't in place to connect upper and lower levels when Gen. Mgr. L. C. Jacobson visited last month and, as shown at lower right, he took to a ladder for a second-story look.


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DURING A LULL in Series opener at Yankee Stadium, Owner Del Webb chats (in center background) with one of his guests that day. Gen. Mgr. L. C. Jacobson of the W e b b Construction Co. Other W e b b guests in the Yankee owner's box that day were (in foreground) Humphrey Bogart and his film-star wife, Lauren Bacall. For an idea of their reactions to a sensational Yankee home run, see Page 10.

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It was a great World Series, tl 1955 classic, and as far as BrookW is concerned, probably nothing j sports will ever match the events J Oct. 4, when 39 years of frustratij and defeat were wiped out in blazing afternoon as their beloi! Dodgers defeated the proud York Yankees, 2-0, in the decid game for the world professional bi ball championship.

It took a long time for the turi and the shouting to die in Brookly for the wistful words, "Wait 'till n year" had been magnificently stricl from the Dodgers' baseball vocal lary. And there probably will be c] siderable buzzing for a long tiim come in the confines of Flatbush a all of Long Island, for after sevi previous failures, the taste of triumrjj over the mighty Yankees was a thini to be rolled on the tongue, tolfl savored to the last degree — a necl that was tinged with divinity.

And among the 362,310 baseH fans who saw the seven Series garni were several W e b b Company repi4 sentatives, headed by Pres. Del Webb, who with Dan Topping own?( the N e w York Yankees. They infji eluded L. C. Jacobson, Webb Com* pany executive vice-president and gen! eral manager, and Mrs. Jacobsoni, Robert A. Becker, secretary-treasure* of the construction firm and also thfjk Yankees' treasurer, accompanied by Mrs. Becker; C. G. Sullivan, an iwj surance representative of the firmj and Mrs. Sullivan; A m y Jo HaffoJjJj secretary to Mr. Webb, and Jerry M * Lain of the company's public rela| tions department.

Brooklyn won the Series becaus* the Dodgers came up with surprising,' exciting pitching, far outdid the Yi kees in relief effectiveness, and cause the Bombers — though tl had many an opportunity — seemel to run out of gas in the deciding gann and could not break through the]

Dodger defenses. Even then Brooklyn won the wort

championship by the slender mar] of two runs, one of those unearrfj

The Series had its few zany mi ments, too, like when Owner Dei W e b b was bopped on the noggin b)| a foul tip during a game at Brooklyn* and when a fan charged onto the nek*

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1 THIRTEEN MILLION TELEVISION FANS WATCHING, even Yankee Owner Del Webb got rough treatment at Ebbets I in Brooklyn. He was conked with a foul tip from the bat ot one of his own players as the Dodgers were blast-rhe Bombers into defeat on the second of three consecutive days. Dramatic photo by Ernie Sisto of the New : Times pictures Webb an instant after he was struck by foul fly off the bat of Don Larson in the fifth inning of fourth game. Roy Campanella, Dodger catcher, leans over the rail a moment too fate to try for the catch. Note friends around Webb are ducking, including Henry Crown, New York financier, seated next to him; Mrs. y Stengel, L. C. (Jake) Jacobson, and — in front of Webb — Ford Frick, baseball commissioner. Later the Yankee sr declared he thought the foul fly was headed for the upper stands when he took his eyes off it. Then, he said, eard Roy Campanella yell, 'Good Lord, Del, did it hurt you?' Then I saw a whole shower of starsl"

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DAY MORNING tabloids in New York front-paged the picture >e Del Webb "baseball beaning," and wirephoto services dis-ited it to newspapers throughout the nation.

PHOENIX EMPLOYEES of the Webb construction firm, having seen the boss "beaned" in the Series telecasts, immediately air-expressed to New York a hard metal construction helmet. Webb smilingly tried it on at the office of George Weiss, right, Yankee general manager, with the assistance of Jacobson.


There Was Suspense, Drama, And Spectacular Play In World Series

THE SCENE recorded in two-picture panel above is Yankee Owner Del Webb's box in the sixth inning of the first game ot the 1955 World Series at Yankee Stadium. Photo at left shows the Humphrey Bogarts in foreground, the L. C. Jacobsons iust behind them and Mr. Webb drinking a glass ot milk at the moment First Baseman Joe Collins smashed the ball toward the bleachers in deep right-center. Photo at right shows the reaction as the drive reached the high distant bleachers at the 375-foot mark for a two-run homer — Bogart tense, Jacobson half out of his seat as he "pulls" for the ball to land in the crowd, waiters pausing to see if it'll be a home run, and fans in background already on their feet shouting. But Webb, almost obscured behind Mrs. Bogart, paused only long enough to see it the horseihide dropped safely into the stands, then calmly went back to drinking his milk.

ON HAND TO CHEER for the Yankees was Hal Webb, (wearing glasses), a brother of Del Webb, who had as guests during a Yankee Stadium game Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Powers and son, Yates, of Casper, Wyo.

AT YANKEE STADIUM, the Robert A. Beckers (right center) chat before start of game. Bob Becker is Webb Company secretary and Yankee treasurer. With them are some ot their Phoenix friends, the Barney Leonards in foreground and C. G. Sullivans in center, behind Leonards.

AT EBBETS FIELD, Amy Jo Hafford of Phoenix, secretary to Air. Webb and Mr. Jacobson, sits with Jack Bishop of Chicago, left, a close friend. Seated beyond Amy are the Henry Hancocks and Ed Tovreas, all of Phoenix.

IN HAPPIER MOMENT, when foul balls weren't falling into the box, Del Webb, Mrs. Casey Stengel and the L. C. Jacobsons are pictured in Mr. Webb's box on edge of diamond

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SERIES DUCATS were really in demand, and not only at the ball parks. As shown above, Owner Del Webb began getting telephone calls from ticket-seeking friends before he could finish his breakfast in his hotel room each morning. And Secretary Amy Jo Hafford, handling a phone call in her room, scans a fistfull ot Series ducats which would have gladdened the heart of any fan, or scalper.

WORLD SERIES HORSEPLAY found Jake Jacobson, in borrowed pork-pie hat and accompanied by smiling wife, Maggie, portraying in front of Brooklyn's Ebbets Field the "country bumpkin" who came to the big city to see the ball games.

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Fashionable Sahara To Set New Arizona Motor Hotel Standards

HOTEL SAHARA takes shape on its site in the heart of the Phoenix business district, as shown in photo above. The swank, 200-room hostelry will cover a square block just off North Central Avenue and a block north of Van Buren Street. Pictured below are several units which are being pushed to completion and will be immediately furnished and then used in "guinea pig" fashion by officials of the Flamingo Hotel system to determine the most stylish and comfortable furnishings for use throughout the motor hotel.


Texas Motor Hotels Due To Open During November (Continued from Page 1) crews in mid-October, with work on schedule or ahead of schedule.

Well under way and due for completion around the advent of the new year is the fashionable 200-unit Sahara Hotel at Phoenix, and ground is to be broken soon on the swank Santa Anita Flamingo at Arcadia, Calif., adjacent to famed Santa Anita racetrack. All will be operated by the Fla

mingo chain, and jointly owned by officials of that hotel corporation and the Del E. Webb Construction Co.

First to receive guests will be the El Paso Flamingo, which was being furnished at mid-month. Occupying a 200- by 600-foot site on Montana Street, the main thoroughfare leading to Biggs Air Force Base and Carlsbad, N.M., the hostelry is about five miles east of downtown El Paso.

As in the case of the other motor hotels now being built, the El Paso Flamingo has a beautiful tiled swimming pool, and a large automobile parking area set off by attractive landscaping. Another feature will be sidewalk cafe dining and lounging in the vicinity of the pool. There is an office, lounge and lobby, and an attractive restaurant which also will be open to the public other than hotel

guests. Wall to wall carpeting is being

used in each unit, and certain rooms for children feature scaled-down fur

niture to fit the tots' needs. Basically the El Paso and San An

tonio hostelries are U-shaped, with

DOWNTOWN PHOENIX BUILDINGS form an impressive backdrop as the new Hotel Sahara which the Webb Company is building for the Flamingo Hotel system rises toward its fourth and uppermost story. View is from the intersection of Second and Taylor Streets. Of reinforced concrete construction, the motor hotel will be the Southwest's most fashionable when it is opened about Jan. 1. Valley National Bank building is in left background of above photo and new home office of the First National Bank of Arizona is partly shown in right background.

JOBSITE CONFERENCE finds Webb Co. men studying construction details with one of the new Sahara's owners, Mike Robinson, managing director for the Flamingo chain. Photo shows, from left: H. £. Boice, chief of operations for the Webb Company at Phoenix; Fred McDowell, superintendent on the Sahara project; Mr. Robinson; Russ Armstrong, job engineer. Jack Ford, operations man on the job; and M. T. Rigg, job office manager.

offices, lounge and restaurant partially closing the space at the bottom

of the "U". Each unit in the Texas motor ho

tels has individually-controlled refrigerated air conditioning for summer months. During the winter the water in the swimming pool will be heated, and the El Paso hostelry will have a glass enclosure around the

pool to facilitate its use year around.

The Phoenix Sahara will have 11

modern shops on its First Street

(front) side.

It will cater to families with chil

dren, offering family quarters con

sisting of two adjoining rooms, one

a children's room with "small fry" furniture.


OLD SOL played a dirty trick on Tom Rittenhouse, Webb Company job engineer. When Tom arrived in Phoenix along in September after quite a stint as an engineer on housing construction at San Diego, he knew full well he was trading sea breezes for the heat of the Arizona desert lands. But he had every right to believe that summer, even in Phoenix, was about at end. First week he was in Phoenix Old Sol went to work on his car (perhaps because it carried California plates), and very soon the rear window cracked into a thousand tiny pieces and a large section exploded outward to leave the gaping hole shown. And this was safety glass! Undaunted, still content with Phoenix and its climate, Tom checked with his auto insurance carrier, and the window was replaced.

The World Series.,. (Continued from Page 8)

graph from Brooklyn's centerfielder Snider.

It was in the No. 4 Series game, the second at Brooklyn, that the Eb-bets Field crowd of more than 36,000 and millions of television viewers saw a foul fly from the bat of Yankee Don Larsen strike Owner Del Webb a glancing blow on the right side of his head and then bounce into the Bomber dugout.

Webb was seated behind Commissioner Ford Frick and Mrs. Frick in a box to the left of the New York dugout. Roy Campanella, Dodger catcher, chasing a foul, reached over the railing a moment too late in an attempt to make a catch as the Fricks and others in the box attempted to dodge the ball. Webb, who later said he thought the ball was going into the upper stands, didn't duck until he was hit.

Trainer Gus Mauch of the Yankees and Dr. Eugene Zorn, the Dodgers' club physician, ran to the box and offered to check any injury, but Webb at first declined attention and for a few minutes remained in his seat. Then he changed his mind and went to the Yankees' dressing room for first-aid treatment. He returned to the game in the seventh inning, although suffering some swelling on the right temple. By next day the entire right side of his face ached, and it was sore for days thereafter.

Webb told friends it was the second time a foul tip had struck him in the many games he has attended since his playing days. In the first instance the ball fell harmlessly into his lap.

As far as the Series outcome was concerned, it might be said the Yankees lost because their three top right handers — Bob Turley, Don Larsen, and Bob Grim — could not beat the Dodgers in Brooklyn, where the Bums took all three games to move out in front after the Bombers won the first two at Yankee Stadium.

But in defeat the Yankees refused to alibi when they could have legitimately pointed out that a sound Mickey Mantle might have brought them their 17th Series triumph, instead of their sixth loss. Though both teams were weakened by injuries, almost complete loss of Mantle was the costliest.

The two pitching standouts, of course, were New York's Whitey Ford and Brooklyn's Johnny Podres, each

of whom won two games. But the performance of Podres was the most surprising, for the 23-year-old had failed to finish any of his final 13 starts during the regular National League season.

Of the 17 homers hit during the Series, 11 came during the three games in Brooklyn's band box.

One of the most unusual plays was Gil McDougald's roller down the third base line which hit Phil Riz-zuto as he slid into third base for an automatic third out when it looked like the Yankees might score in the deciding game.

But the heart-breaker for Yankee fans was Sandy Amoros' great sixth-inning catch of Yogi Berra's smash into left field just in front of the boxes, and the resultant Dodger double play which caught Gil McDou-gald returning to first base and nipped in the bud what looked like an opportunity for the Yankees to tie up the game.

And in this richest of all World Series (from a financial standpoint), Amoros' fine grab probably was the most valuable maneuver by any player in the World Series, for it meant that the winning Dodgers got a total of $103,299.51 more than did the

losing Yankees. The 30 Brooklyn players, coaches and other members of top personnel received Series checks for $9,768.21 each. The Yanks voted four more full shares than did the Dodgers, and rewarded six more men, so their individual shares

amounted to $5,598.58.

Total Series receipts, including

$1,075,000 from radio-television

rights which goes into the Major

Leagues' Central Fund for player pen

sions, and $100,000 from the pre-

game television program, amounted i

to $3,512,515.34, an all-time record. |

The Brooklyn club picked up $341,-

508.62 with which to erase its year's

deficit and leave something for 1956.

Yankee Owners Webb and Topping

got a check for a similar sum.

Cutting Things Rather Short Owen Childress of the Phoenix of

fice vacationed at home this summer;

got better acquainted with his two

young sons, did some planting and

renovating around the homestead.

and reported back on the job with a

crew haircut which still is attracting

considerable attention.


Lucky Los Angeles Folks Win Top Series Money; 'Pop' Is The Phoenix Leader Big winnings in the office World Series baseball pools seemed to go to Los Angeles folks thic year, even the top single award from the Phoenix all-games pool. In that the Phoenix crew made the mistake of permitting Dale Griffith of the L.A. staff to participate, and had to send to him the $50 top prize.

Fritz Danielson, engineer at the Los Angeles office, nabbed the $100 top award there.

Mary Somerfeld captured the pool at Los Angeles on two days, and collected a total of $20. Other daily winners were Appy Guizot, Sallie Tucker, Al Telford, Enola Owens and Wally Edmundson. Top money winner at Phoenix, for

getting the $50 sent to "that fur-riner Griffith," was A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, who handled the pools, dispensed the ticket chances, and then himself amassed $69.90 in winnings. Tom Hetherington, who didn't even have time to draw his own innings, entrusting the task to his secretary, collected $33.15 in six of the seven games, and L. O. (Blackie) Hoeft pocketed $29.40.

Rosa Kort, with $24; Evelyn Martin, with $18; Johnny Morton, with $17.50, and A m y Jo Hafford with $16.50, were other substantial win

ners. Others who got back some money,

even though it may or may not have been as much as they invested, included: Frank Murray and John Meeker, $13.50 each; Gerry Hampton, $12; Tom Rittenhouse, $9.90; Gladys Sanders, Rosanne McLain, Speedy Winston and Milford Rigg, $9 each; Gene Flint, $6; Jack Ford, $4.50; L. C. Jacobson, $3; J. R. Ashton, $2.40, and Paul Marks, $2.25.

Hey, Pop, Look Out! H. G. (Speedy) Winston, chief accountant at the Phoenix office, lived up to his nickname when he recently made a quick swipe with one hand at his mischievous young son, intending to warm the seat of the youngster's pants. But the boy was even faster. He moved and Speedy's hand struck the kitchen sink, fracturing an index finger and putting

it in splints for weeks.

WEDDING BELLS rang on Sept. 23 for Thomas E. Breen, who is in charge of housing sales at Phoenix for the Webb Company, and pretty Jacolyn Mantell, Phoenix nurse. They're pictured above just after their wedding and shortly before departing on a brief honeymoon trip to Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, Calif. Shown below is the group which attended the quiet ceremony at the Phoenix home of Webb Co. Vice-Pres. and Mrs. J. R. Ashton. From left are Mr. Ashton, the bride and groom, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Nalbandian, friends of the bridegroom; Mrs. Ashton and Superior Judge Charles Bernstein, who performed the ceremony.


DIRECTORY DEL E.WEBB

CCNSTBIIEJICN



PHOENIX OFFICE

302 South 23rd Avenue, P. O. Box 4066, Phoenix, Arizona, Phone ALpine 8-7441 J. R. Ashton, Vice President and District Manager

H. E. Boice, Chief of Operations Kim Bannister F. S. Murray A. C. Jacobson, E. W. Flint T. E. Breen O. F. Childress J. W. Meeker


W. J. Miller, Business Manager H. G. Winston P. G. Marks J. L. Morton J. P. McLain Rosa M. Kort G. G. Grantham Rose Romano Emma Marie Miller A. K. Stewart

Amy Jo Hafford Kara C. Newell Pearl S. Richardson Florence Olson T. P. Mulkern L. O. Hoeft Gladys Sanders Mary P. Moss J. W. Colachis LOS ANGELES OFFICE

5101 San Fernando Road W., Los Angeles 39, California, Phone CHapman 5-2616 "". Johnson, Vice President and District Manager R. H.


Martha Little

D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager Enola Owens M. F. Chambers F. O. Langell Alice Stears M. F. Webb Beverly Often S. A. Grubbs E. B. York George Shaw Sallie Tucker Gerald Harris Freda McDonald


.1. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations M. D. Stevens, Job Superintendent Cecil Drinkward, Job Engineer C. F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager

CASPER, WYO., OFFICE 1403 East Yellowstone Phone 2-7195 Casper, Wyoming

R. G. Fleming, Job Superintendent R. L. Reeves, Job Office Manager

EL PASO, TEXAS, OFFICE P. O. Box 5097 6101-17 Montana St. El Paso, Texas Phone PRospect 8-2096 F. E. Warren, Job Superintendent R. T. White, Job Office Manager

TUCSON, ARIZONA, OFFICE P. O. Box 7245, South Tucson Station Tucson, Arizona Phone 3-4002 T. G. Austin, Job Office Manager

PALO ALTO, CALIF., OFFICE 211 Town & Country Village Palo Alto, Calif. Phone DAvenport 4-4751 Axel Johnson, Director of Planning

PHOENIX, ARIZ, OFFICE 13th Ave. & Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone CRestwood 4-5828 Tom Gilbreath, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE 19th Ave. and Thomas Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Kent Hamer, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE First & Polk Sts. Phoenix, Arizona Phone ALpine 2-3871




SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, OFFICE 1131 Austin Highway San Antonio, Texas Phone TAylor 2-7701 W. A. Warriner, Mgr. of Job Operation J. S. Aubin, Job Office Manager

SAN DIEGO, CALIF., OFFICE P. O. Box 9396 4724 Hidalgo Ave. San Diego 9, Calif. Phone BRoadway 3-6234

J. N. McPhee, Job Superintendent P. D. Clouthier, Job Office Manager

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE Fifth & Boylston Sts. Los Angeles, Calif., Phone Michigan 2906 C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer W. R. Foeht, Job Office Manager W. C. Edmundson, Job Accountant

Some of the Webb Company's "old timers" observe birthday anniversaries during November, and to each the Webb Spinner extends sincere congratulations. They include:

W . J. Miller, Phoenix Nov. 2 Gerry Hampton, Phoenix Nov. 6 L. C. Jacobson, Phoenix Nov. 6 H. G. Winston, Phoenix Nov. 11 Cecil Drinkward, LA Nov. 13 Jack McPhee, San Diego, Nov. 27

Sam A. Grubbs, LA Nov. 28

When you feel dog tired at night; it may be because you growled all

day.

Some people are in debt because they spend what their friends think they make.

The man who gets along in this world is the one who can look happy when he isn't.

Only Americans have mastered the

art of being prosperous though broke.

Volume* October, 1955 No. 10 Published by the




EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Del E. Webb I. C. Jacobson R.A.Becker W.J.Miller








Industrial Editors

Del Webb Joins Yankees On Pacific, Japanese Tour An opportunity to study the success of the Japanese in rebuilding from the ravages of war, as well as the popularity of American baseball over there, is being afforded Pres. Del E. Webb as a co-owner of the New York Yankees.

Mr. Webb emplaned from San Francisco on Oct. 8 with the Yankee team and a number of baseball officials and their wives for 10 days in Honolulu, after which the party was to fly to Japan, and subsequently to Okinawa and Manila, returning to the U.S. about Nov. 21.

The Yankees were to play five games in Hawaii, and a 16-game exhibition schedule in Japan, followed by two in Okinawa and two in Manila. Yankees who passed up the trip were Phil Rizzuto, Joe Collins, Frankie Crosetti, Rip Coleman and Tommy Carroll, who returned to his classes at Notre Dame.

Besides Webb, officials accompany

ing the players included Commis

sioner Ford C. Frick and Mrs. Frick,

George M. Weiss, Yankee general

manager, and Mrs. Weiss, Manager

Casey Stengel and Mrs. Stengel, the

J. Arthur Friedlunds, the Aaron Lan-

iers and the Bill McCorrys.

Visits in Japan were scheduled at

Tokyo, Sendai. Sapporo. Osaka.

Nagoya, Fukuoka, Shimonoseki, Hir

oshima and Hakone.

Vol. 9, No. 1 1 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, NOVEMBER, 1955 8 Pages

TV Star Gobel Plans To Attend Opening Of Texas Motor Hotels George Gobel, businessman and stockholder, visited Phoenix early this month to inspect construction progress on the new Sahara Hotel. But as even the newspaper, radio and television writers turned autograph "hounds," Gobel slipped quickly again into the role of "Lonesome George," entertainer and star of television and radio.

A stockholder in the Flamingo Hotel chain for which the Del E. Webb Construction Co. is building the 200-room Sahara at Phoenix and currently is completing motor hotels in El Paso and San Antonio, Tex., Actor Gpbel announced he not only intends to be in Phoenix for the Sahara opening, but plans to travel to El Paso and San Antonio to appear at opening celebrations for those

hostelries.

The El Paso opening is slated Friday, Nov. 26, and the San Antonio opening on Saturday, Nov. 27. The 13-unit El Paso Flamingo and the 100-unit San Antonio Flamingo will be operated by the Flamingo chain, and jointly owned by officials of the hotel corporation, including Gobel, and the Del Webb Company.

During his Phoenix visit Gobel met one of his "partners" in the hotel business, Gen. Mgr. L. C. Jacobson of the Webb Company, and after a tour of the Sahara construction site they posed for newspaper photog

raphs. Gobel, tacking up a sign announcing opening of the Sahara in January, managed to hit a thumb

with the hammer.

The two also were guests of Mike Robinson, managing director of the

Flamingo chain, at a luncheon for the press at the Phoenix Flamingo

Hotel.

OUCH! Southpaw George Gobel, television and radio star, bangs thumb in tacking up sign announcing January opening of new Sahara Hotel now under construction at Phoenix. Lending assistance at foot of ladder is L. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president and general manager of Webb Company.

Expansion Of Tucson Flamingo Hotel Is Started Expansion of the Flamingo Motor

Hotel at Tucson by construction of another 70 units was started this month by Webb Company workmen.

The hostelry is one of the largest in Southern Arizona. The addition being erected on newly-acquired adjacent property will bring total units to about 200 and establish the Tucson Flamingo as one of the largest motor hotels in the state, according to Mike Robinson, managing director of the

Flamingo chain.

Besides the 70 new units the addition will have two conference rooms for convention use. Two new units also are being equipped with kitchenettes. Construction is of lightweight cement block, and the addition will have its own heating and cooling systems.

Walter Pritchett is job superinten

dent and Bob White is job office manager.

THE WEBB SPINNER November, 1955

Busy Uptown Plaza 'Rounds Off Corners' To Attract New Patrons

MODERN DRUG STORE, McCrary's Pharmacy, has been opened at norihwest corner of spacious Uptown Plaza shopping center at Phoenix to increase to 11 the Plaza ausiness firms. Free and easily-accessible parking for 650 cars has proved big incentive to shoppers.

HELSING'S COFFEE SHOP is new plaza restaurant at busy corner ot Central Avenue and Camelback Road. Modernistic in design, it completes the four corners ot the Plaza, at each of which luncheon is served by a different business firm.

SOUTHEAST CORNER of Plaza business center owned by Del E. Webb Construction Co. has become a mecca for shoppers with opening of GallenKamp shoe store, and, adjacent to Navarre's, the Judie Iris blouse bar. Navarre's cocktail lounge and swank dining room was first business in operation at Uptown Plaza.

November, 1955 THE WEBB SPINNER Page 3

TVeU &. O^ice

TriniTM Oil 'Pt^'fat A LULL in their duties at the Los Angeles office of the Webb Company recently provided an opportunity for four members of the secretarial staff to join Dale Griffith, assistant business manager, in an inspection tour ot the $20,000,000 Union Oil Center project. Pictured at right, >• the group included Sally Tucker, Mrs. Martha Little, Enola Owens, Job Supt. Neil Drinkward, who pointed out interesting features ot the big building project; Mrs. Freda McDonald and Mr. Griffith. Height-limit office building will rise on the five-acre site to over look downtown Los Angeles and serve as Union Oil's western headquarters.

Some of the fine folks at our Los Angeles office take the spotlight in the December program of birthdays, and to each the Webb Spinner sends hearty congratulations. They include: Cliff Dean, Los Angeles . . . Dec. 2 Dale Griffith, Los Angeles . . Dec. 3 W. C. Edmundson, L. A. . . Dec. 6 Ralph Wanless, Los Angeles Dec. 17 Alice Stears, Los Angeles . Dec. 28

Tips For Secretaries Secretaries' attitudes and problems, as well as ways in which they can improve themselves, were discussed at a workshop meeting in Hotel Westward Ho last month, sponsored by the Phoenix chapter of the National Secretaries Association and attended by a number of Webb Company secretaries. These included Gerry Hampton, Marie Miller, Bobby Spaulding, Amy Jo Hafford, Gladys Sanders, Flo Olson and Evelyn Martin.

He's In Movies N o w Owen Childress of the Phoenix of

fice got into a genuine movie recently when some scenes were filmed at the Phoenix greyhound race track. Owen was "drafted" for a brief scene in which he held a racing greyhound, was told when the cameras stopped rolling to "sign here," and was presented a check for $10. He'd like it known now that he's available, just

anytime, for further film roles.

A PAUSE on edge ot the main excavation at Union Oil Center.

INSPECTING a 26-toot-deep sewer trench on adjacent street, a part of the project.

LOOKING OVER partially-demolished Ford J. Twaits building, one ot structures which has to be cleared from Union Oil site. Group here was joined by Gil Murray, left, assistant superintendent.


NOW IT CAN B£ TOLD:

The story of the guided missile achievements of the multi-million dollar Hughes Aircraft plant built at Tucson, Ariz., by the Del E. Webb Construction Co. was made public for the first time when Hughes officials recently reported to newspaper, magazine and radio men assembled from throughout the nation.

And, simultaneously, the writers were given their first look at the complex "electronic brain" being produced at the Hughes Aircraft main plant at Culver City, Calif., where Webb Company workmen several years ago rushed to completion a huge expansion program.

This radar system is a "seek-find-and-kill" electronic control system for U. S. fighter planes — and until the recent press reception its accomplishments were closely-guarded military secrets. But on this occasion Hughes and the U. S. Air Force representatives literally "took the wraps off" interceptor planes and let the newsmen see how they work, then detailed the striking and destructive power of the famed Falcon guided missile manufactured at Tucson.

And though the Falcon has received so much publicity as the only air-to-air missile with a "brain," the newsmen heard from one scientist that it is the "Model-T Ford" of guided missiles, that "better and newer missiles" are coming, and "they'll roll out the doors at this (Tucson) plant."

The scientist was Nathan I. Hall, a Hughes Aircraft vice-president and director of the firm's weapon systems development laboratories.

"We're still quite a distance away

from the 'Cadillac' stage in guided missiles," said Hall, adding that "the fiscal budget for 1955 shows nearly $1 billion in defense spending on guided missiles, and that's only one-

Hughes Plant Built By Webb Compaq Revealed Producer Of Famed Falcon ( tenth the amount spent on aircraft. But I predict that in 10 to 15 years the money spent on missiles will equal or surpass that spent on planes."

Hall said the Falcon is making design of interceptor planes easier, because the missile will climb and can be launched thousands of feet below a target. Using either gunfire or rockets, the interceptors have had to climb to an altitude equal to the enemy, and therefore designers had to sacrifice some speed for the higher ceiling characteristics.

He spoke briefly before and after screening of a color film — the first shown to press or public anywhere — on the Falcon in action. It showed flight tests at Holloman Air Force Base, and the striking power of the missile both with and without its still-secret warhead.

The look at the interior of the big Tucson plant designed and built by Webb crews was a brief one, even for the visiting correspondents. Because of security regulations, a proposed tour of the facility was cancelled, but at the last moment clearance was given for a walk down a side corridor and a brief peek at

the vast interior expanse, with its 546,000 square feet of floor space.

Then W . W . Wooldridge, plant manager and a Hughes vice-president, revealed — during an explanation of the plant's workings through use of an exact scale model — a number of features never before made public.

He told of an air lock — similar

WHERE INTERCEPTORS GET 'BRAINS.' This is the Los Angeles main plant of Hughes Aircraft, covering more than 34 acres of floor space, where the Webb Company completed millions of dollars in new construction to modernize and tremendously enlarge facilities now producing electronic systems for interceptor planes. Hughes officials recently released the story of the electronic "brain" whic'h flies interceptor planes automatically and will enable pilots to locate and destroy attacking enemy bombers in any kind of weather, day or night, far from centers of population.


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BIRTHPLACE OF THE DEADLY FALCON. Encompassing almost thirteen acres of floor space, this is the multi-million dollar Hughes Aircraft electronics plant the Webb Company constructed near Tucson. Already it has become one of the nation's foremost scientific defense installations with its production of the famed Falcon guided missile, termed by Assistant Air Force Secretary Trevor Gardner "one of the most important contributions to the defense of the North American continent since the development of radar." But until the story of its guided missile production recently was made public, probably less has been publicly known about the Hughes company than any firm in the U. S. approaching its size.

ELECTRONIC 'BRAIN.' A complex "seek-find-and-kill" electronic tiring control system such as that pictured above is the "brain" ot every U. S. and Canadian Air Force interceptor plane guarding the North American continent against enemy attack by air. It is manufactured by Hughes Aircraft's main plant at Culver City, outside Los Angeles.

FALCON'S NEST. Air-to-air Falcon guided missiles are shown nested in shipping boxes at huge production plant built at Tucson by Webb Company. The Falcon is slightly over six feet long, six inches in diameter and weighs less than the average man. Launched at a range of miles, not yards, it packs the blast of a heavy artillery shell and every hit is a "kill."


About People

BRING 'EM ON. Football helmet in place, a determined look on his face and fists clenched. Secretary Bob Becker ot the Webb Company looks like he's ready to have Mike Casteel send him into action against a grid foe like mighty Notre Dame, Oklahoma or Maryland. Actually, though, Mike was giving instructions to his photographer in making a picture of Becker as one of the "Sun Angel Builders," businessmen-backers of the Bulldogs of Arizona State College at Tempe, early-November leaders of the Border Conference. Casteel is executive secretary of the Sun Angel Foundation.

BUDDING ARTIST. Toni Gay Spaulding, daughter of Secretary Bobby Spaulding of the Webb Company, is showing great promise as an artist, and is pictured with a scene she painted in oils during a summer visit to the Pacific shore at La Jolla, Calif. Now studying art at Arizona State College at Tempe, Toni is looking forward to a career as a commercial artist.

SPOOK HUNTER. We don't know how profitable it was for H. G. (Speedy) Winston, Phoenix office chief accountant, but his youngsters had a grand time and collected considerable "loot" when he took them on a "trick or treat" tour Hallowe'en night. Speedy ranged over much of Phoenix, visiting the homes of many Webb Company friends. He's pictured at one stop with his fashionably-attired trio, Billy, Bobby and Linda.

November, 1 955 THE WEBB SPINNER Page 7

Webb-Built Tucson Plant

Of Hughes Co. Revealed

Guided Missile Producer (Continued from Page 5)

than nine months after ground was broken in a raw desert area a few miles south of Tucson, machinery and other specialized equipment was being moved into place and first production got underway.

At the Culver City plant the writers were told that Hughes Aircraft Co. developed and has produced more than 8,000 electronic brain systems, representing the greatest production achievement of any one U. S. firm in the entire field of electronics.

It also was revealed that Hughes now boasts the largest privately-organized scientific group in the nation working exclusively on electronics for the military, with more than 5,000 scientists, engineers and skilled technicians among its 19,300 employees, including 4,371 working at Tucson. Hughes Aircraft now is by far the largest designer and manufacturer of electronics anywhere in the West.

The electronic fire control system shown the writers takes up less than 30 cubic feet of space in a fighter plane, yet is so intricate in design and manufacture that each system is equivalent, in number of parts, to 200 television sets, and in production requires far greater precision and reliability.

Hughes electronics systems in the newest all-weather interceptors which fire rockets, and in the interceptors which will fire Hughes Falcon missiles, have these primary functions:

1. Locate the target at long range regardless of the conditions of visibil-ity.

2. Direct the pilot to fly the most advantageous course to a point where

armament should be launched.

3. Launch armament automatically

at exactly the correct instant to make a hit. The armament may be guns, rockets, or the recently announced

Hughes Falcon guided missile, deadly enough to destroy any plane in the world and possessing its own

electronic "brain" which takes over the moment the Falcon is launched

SOVIET PLOT? Paul Marks, (second from left), Webb Company purchasing agent and treasurer of the Purchasing Agents Association of Arizona, is pictured above as he was introduced to Alrok Potelov, Russian newspaper columnist from Stalingrad — and it was immediately apparent neither understood a word of the other's language. At left is Harold Wrenn, publisher of the Coolidge, Ariz., Examiner, and at right is Dick Inderrieden, TWA district manager at Phoenix. It was at a Coolidge meeting for purchasing agents from Phoenix and Tucson, and Inderrieden interpreted Potelov's speech, which proved to be so critical of American life in general and purchasing agents in particular that the listeners were shouting "Buy American" before the speaker had finished. But, hardly had he uttered his last Russian words before two levi-clad deputy sheriffs stalked into the banquet room and "arrested" Potelov. And then the purchasing agents (and Photographer Jerry McLain who made the above picture) finally tumbled — it was all a gag. The "Russian" actually was Al Pote, Phoenix advertising agency executive, who had sprouted a mustache, donned horn-rimmed glasses, and studiously learned 16 Russian words which stood him in good stead throughout the evening, until he was unmasked.

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stant of impact.

Very complex, the Hughes electronics control system for interceptor planes consists essentially of a radar system, a computer, and a scope. The radar antenna is installed in the nose of the interceptor and the various units comprising the system are usually installed in the forward section of

the plane's fuselage.

Radar automatically searches for the target and supplies the computer with data once the target is detected. The searching is done automatically.

A display of what the radar sees is presented to the pilot or radar

observer on a "scope" similar to a small television screen. When the tar

get is detected the radar system automatically tracks it and supplies data on it to the computer. The computer automatically calculates the attack course and directs the pilot onto it bv means of steering signals displayed on the pilot's scope.

When the interceptor reaches its firing position, the computer automatically launches the armament.

Hughes officials also told the writers that the company now is developing, under U. S. Air Force contracts, even more advanced systems

which will fire either rockets or guided missiles, and one of which will automatically control a plane from

the moment it leaves the runway until

it returns to its base after a mission.


DIRECTORY DEL E.WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO.

DEL E WEBB

CONSTRUCTION

Del E. W e b b , President L. C. Jacobson, Executive Vice President and General Manager


PHOENIX OFFICE


H. E. Boice, Chief of Operations Kim Bannister

F. S. Murray

A. C. Jacobson, Sr.

E. W. Flint

T. E. Breen

O. F. Childress

J. W. Meeker

J. W. Ford

Bobby Spaulding

Lorraine Greager

Geraldine Hampton

Alice Murdoch

Evelyn Martin

F. P. Kuentz

T. L. Rittenhouse

W. J. Miller, Business Manager H. G. Winston

P. G. Marks

J. L. Morton

J. P. McLain

Rosa M. Kort

G. G. Grantham

Rose Romano

Emma Marie Miller

A. K. Stewart

Amy Jo Hafford

KaraC. Newell

Pearl S. Richardson

Florence Olson

T. P. Mulkern

L. O. Hoeft

Gladys Sanders

Mary P. Moss

J. W. Colachis LOS ANGELES OFFICE

5101 San Fernando Road W., Los Angeles 39, California, Phone C H a p m a n 5-2616 R. H. Johnson, Vice President and District Manager

E. T. Davies, Chief of Operations D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager C. H. Dean R. C. Hinton Enola O w e n s M . F. Chambers E. H. Smith, Jr. Ralph Wanless F. O. Langell Alice Stears G. A. Anderson F. W . Danielson M . F. W e b b Beverly Otten

Martha Little S. A. Grubbs E. B. York George Shaw Sallie Tucker Gerald Harris Freda McDonald


). J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations M. D. Stevens, Job Superintendent Cecil Drinkward, Job Engineer C. F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager

CASPER, WYO., OFFICE 1403 East Yellowstone Phone 2-7195 Casper, W y o m i n g

R. G. Fleming, Job Superintendent R. L. Reeves, Job Office Manager

EL PASO, TEXAS, OFFICE

P. O. Box 5097

6101-17 Montana St.

El Paso, Texas

Phone PRospect 8-2096

F. E. Warren, Job Superintendent


T. G. Austin, Job Office Manager

PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE 13th Ave. & Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone CRestwood 4-5828

Tom Gilbreath, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

TUCSON ARIZ., OFFICE Seventh Ave. & Mable St. Tucson, Arizona

Walter Pritchett, Job Superintendent R. T. White, Job Office Manager

PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE 19th Ave. and Thomas Rd. Phoenix, Arizona

Kent Hamer, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager





SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, OFFICE 1131 Austin Highway San Antonio, Texas Phone TAylor 2-7701

W . A. Warriner, Mgr. of Job Operations J. S. Aubin, Job Office Manager

SAN DIEGO, CALIF., OFFICE

P. O. Box 9396

4724 Hidalgo Ave.

San Diego 9, Calif.

Phone BRoadway 3 6234

J. N. McPhee, Job Superintendent

P. D. Clouthier, Job Office Manager

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE Fifth & Boylston Sts. Los Angel?s, Calif., Phone Michigan 2906

C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer W . R. Foeht, Job Office Manager W . C. Edmundson, Job Accountant

The Big Shake-Up Gen. Mgr. L. C. Jacobson now can attest, with misgivings, how it feels to be in an earthquake. He had his first experience recently while in San Francisco with Realtor Roy Drachman on business. They were just leaving their hotel room when doors

began to rattle and shake. It didn't last long, but long enough! And both

Hoeft Refurbishes Home Blackie Hoeft of the Phoenix office

warehouse staff used up the rest of his summer vacation time recently in putting a new coat of paint on his home, building shelves in the carport and putting in a winter lawn. He's ready now for the winter.

later admitted they helpless feeling.

had sort of a

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302 South 23rd Ave.

Phoenix, Arizona

5101 San Fernando Road West

Los Angeles, California

in the interests of the personnel of its

various projects and branch offices

Del E. Webb

R. A. Becker

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE

A m y Jo Hafford

EDITOR Jerry McLain



Dale Griffith, Los Angeles

CIRCULATION MANAGER

Kara Caroline (Casey) Newell

Member

Society of Associated

Industrial Editors

and

International Council of

Industrial Editors

L. C.Jacobson

W.J. Mil

MUSCLE MAN. Four years ago Jim Drinkward, the son ot Neil Drinkward, job superintendent for the Webb Company on the Union Oil project, captured the weight lifting championship as a 21-year-old corporal at Davis Monthan Air Force Base at Tucson, Ariz. Than he annexed the "Mr. Tucson" title in physical-development competition by lifting a total weight of 685 pounds, which was 30 pounds better than his nearest competitor. Today Jim is still building muscles — but on other folks as well as himself. He's in the health club business, and operates body-building institutions in Tucson, Dallas and Houston in Texas, and at Ogden, Utah. And he's still single.

Vol.9 No. 12 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, DECEMBER, 1955 12 Pages

Stockholder-Celebrities loin Fanfare At Opening Of Texas Motor Hotels Texans, who have big ideas about

doing big things in a big way, got a lesson last month from a few "foreigners" in the matter of opening motor hotels with genuine fanfare. And, at least to residents of El Paso and San Antonio and vicinity, there should be little doubt that they today boast two of the swankiest highway hotels in the Southwest.

The new 134-unit Flamingo at El Paso and the colorful 104-unit Flamingo at San Antonio, both just completed by the Del E. Webb Construction Co., were opened in formal ceremonies that attracted thousands.

And the "foreign" stars of the shows were diminutive, wise-cracking George Gobel of radio and television fame, and Contractor Del E. Webb, an owner of the New York Yankees. Both flew from Los Angeles to participate in inaugural ceremonies, for both are among the stockholders in the chain of Flamingo hotels now in operation or under construction in Texas, Arizona and California.

Gobel fans thronged the El Paso


FORMAL OPENING of new El Paso, Tex., Flamingo Motor Hotel attracted a throng which witnessed a sparkling fashion show and then watched Comedian George Gobel crown a pretty college coed as Miss Flamingo.

A COUPLE OF 'HOTEL MEN' look over one of their newest properties! George Gobel, left, of television fame, and Contractor Del E. Webb, who also dabbles in major league baseball as a Yankee owner, inspect the new Flamingo Motor Hotel in San Antonio, Tex., in which both are stockholders.

THE WEBB SPINNER December, 1955

olibap Greetings; #**« 7<6e BOM, The recurring miracle of Christmas affords me once again the opportunity

to extend greetings of the season to our personnel, our clients, our subcon

tractors, and to our many friends who are readers of The Webb Spinner.

Christmas, though divinely inspired, is man-made. It is the creation of

countless ardent and reverent hearts throughout centuries. Even today we

don't just celebrate Christmas — we make it.

One of the drawbacks of our industrial progress is the diminishing part

personal contact has played and will play in years to come. We already are

well into the atomic age. Now we are entering a vast automation stage where

the only contact some people will have with others will be in the form of

punchcards or television screens. Yet no matter how far we progress in

dustrially there is no substitute for personal contact.

All these things we know at Christmas time. We can be thankful that

we shed a lot of the hardness that life has built around us. Maybe we ought

to take a little more time in our business, in our social life and in our home-

life to let a little of the Golden Rule rub off onto us all year around.

So in extending our sincere greetings, we wish you well; we wish you

very well.

When we in the Del E. Webb Construction Co. pause to review with pride

our achievements in building during 1955, we can only express again our deep

appreciation for the industry, the cooperation and the loyalty of our em

ployees, not only this past year but throughout the history of our construction

operations.

The post-war years have posed new problems in our business, but we feel

that we have met them and that expansion at the right time shows continuing

healthy growth for our Company. We look with confidence to the future, be

cause we believe that our new policy of building for investment will mean

that well have "something going for us" even when the chips are down.

The passing years have added experience that guided our forward steps,

and we firmly believe our leadership is sound. Today our Company has a

great potential. We feel that each year has not only been a step forward, but

that this was the natural result of experience which has been constantly fur

nishing the inspiration for us to keep looking ahead and striving for a better

way in building, in order that we may bring our clients the best construction

that human effort, skill and equipment can provide.

It is heartening for me and other officials of our Company to work with

people who have a real sense of responsibility and concern over their firm's

welfare and future. And we want our fellow workers to make the most of their

time, get the best out of themselves, and to rise to new successes. We of the

Webb Company must always strive to continue among the leaders in our field.

So, on the threshhold of this new Christmas, and the approaching New

Year, may I extend to all our employees, to our valued associates and friends,

and to members of their families, sincere and hearty wishes for a happy holi

day season, and the wish that 1956 may be for each the best year of all.

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light a world of peace

Wasn't Rodeo Time, Either Maizie Johnson, wife of R. H.

(Bob ) Johnson, Webb Company vice-president and Los Angeles office manager, recently was painfully injured when thrown from a horse while riding with Bob near their Pasadena, Calif., home. Right now probably the best Christmas gift Maizie could get would be a speedy recovery.

This Fella HAS Something One of the most interesting "pro

duction" experiments now under way at the Webb Company's Phoenix office is being headed up by Owen Childress. He came back from his summer vacation with a crew haircut, and now he claims he's growing hair! He may have just been jesting, but he was overheard the other day claiming it was getting so thick he could hardly run a comb through it.

San Manuel Beckons While Bill Warriner was finishing

up his duties in Texas and getting the El Paso and San Antonio motor hotels into operation, his wife, Donna, went over to San Manuel, Ariz., to visit over Thanksgiving with many friends they made in the new Arizona

mining community while Bill was serving as town manager for almost a year.

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(Continued from Page 1) airport when the comedian arrived at noon for a Sunday afternoon program. And when the party headed by Gobel and Webb stepped from another airliner at 10 o'clock that night in chilly San Antonio, the largest crowd ever to greet celebrities arriving at that Texas city's air terminal had jammed the airport administration building for a 30-minute program.

Greeted by Mayor and Mrs. Ed Kuykendall and other San Antonio civic officials, Webb, Gobel and the comedian's business manager, Dave O'Malley, were made alcaldes (mayors of La Villita). During formal opening ceremonies next day for the new Flamingo, all three received gifts from the mayor, a baseball bat was presented to Webb after it was autographed by San Antonio sports writers, and Gobel crowned pretty 18-year-old Cynthia Plackard of San Antonio College as Miss Flamingo. The most elaborate opening pro-

INSPECTION TOUR of new San Antonio Flamingo for Owners Gobel and Del Webb was directed by Bill Warriner, second from right, Webb Company manager of job operations during construction, and Joe Aubin, at left, the job office manager. For some pictorial glimpses of what they saw, turn to next two pages.

gram was presented at El Paso, since it also included a one-hour style show presented by the Given Brothers store there. Thousands of persons inspected the spacious motor hotel property and many remained to witness the Sunday afternoon program presented in perfect sunshiny weather. Cold hampered the San Antonio ceremonies the next day.

During the El Paso program Gobel placed a crown on the head of that city's Miss Flamingo — Ann Noble of Texas Western College.

Both beauties will attend the opening of the new Hotel Sahara in Phoenix, another unit in the Flamingo chain, and also will be rewarded with trips to Las Vegas, Nev.

A number of other Flamingo stockholders from Phoenix and Chicago were on hand to join Gobel and Webb for the opening programs, including Mike Robinson, managing director of the chain of hostelries.

W. A. ( Bill) Warriner. Webb Company manager of job operations dur-

White Christmas Ahead The winter tourists may be flock

ing to Phoenix to soak up sunshine, but Rose Romano of the Phoenix office staff plans to spend Christmas in frigid Chicago. But she's flying there to spend the holidays with her parents and family.

They Saw Snow, Too Tom Hetherington. company at

torney, and family visited over the Thanksgiving holidays with relatives in Missouri, and Tom's wife, Nell, and their two children remained for a longer visit when Hetherington flew back to his duties at Phoenix.

ing construction of the two motel projects, and J. S. Aubin. job office manager at San Antonio, attended ceremonies there. At El Paso the spectators included F. E. Warren, job superintendent on that project, and R. T. White, job office manager.


Modern Highway Hotels Set Pace In El Paso And San Antonio

EL PASO FLAMINGO, situated at 6099 East Montana Street (Highway 8 IJ just five miles east of downtown tl Paso, has 134 modern rooms and suites, painted in gay colors, carpeted wall to wall, and featuring large glass areas overlooking the inner court. Towering mountains form a picturesque backdrop.

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OFFICE AND RESTAURANT also feature large glass areas, and are brightly-lighted at night.

LARGE SWIMMING POOL, bordered by colorful tile, wilt be kept at 80 degrees the year around.

VIEW FROM PATIO of attractively-furnished, television- GLASS-ENCLOSED patio dining room adjoins main dining equipped room overlooking swimming pool. area and looks out on pool and inner courtyard.

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New Motels Hailed As Fine Contribution To Texas Hostelries

SAN ANTONIO FLAMINGO is an imposing new structure at 1131 Austin Highway, the main thoroughfare between San Antonio and the state capitol at Austin. It has 104 rooms and suites and, like those at El Paso, each is equipped with television and finished in pastel colors.

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EACH ROOM has view of patio through glass wall, and individual sun deck for guests.


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AT HIS grounds bussed crowned

COMEDIAN GOBEL was "checked in" at El Paso Flamingo by Mgr. Edward F. Gerold and similing wife, Kay, who is daughter of Gen. Mgr. L. C. Jacobson ot Webb Company.

IT WAS GREAT SPORT, Gobel quickly discovered, to ride motor scooter used by El Paso Flamingo bellhops. He piled on with them for a motor tour.

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C R O W D JAMMED AIRPORT administration building at San Antonio to welcome Gobel, Webb and party. During 30-minute welcoming ceremonies presented from specially-constructed stage, the celebrities received certificates appointing them honorary mayors.

DURING HOTEL INAUGURAL, San AnM center, presented gifts fo Dave OMB manager; Webb, Gobel and Marion" National Restaurant Owners Associate


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SOUVENIR BASEBALL BAT was presented to Yankee Owner Del Webb by Dick Peebles, left, sports editor of San Antonio Express, after it was autographed by Texas sports writers.

SAN ANTONIO PROGRAM included a buffet luncheon for civic leaders and the press. Elaborate pastries were created by Walter Koenig, cake shop owner, who shows fhem to Miss Flamingo candidates.

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APPRECIATION for large turnout is expressed by Contractor Webb.

MISS FLAMINGO, 18-year-old Cynthia Plackard of San Antonio College, poses with Webb and Gobel after she was crowned by the television star. She will appear at opening of new Hotel Sahara in Phoenix early in 1956.


Santa Arrives At Uptown Plaza

ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME was accorded Santa Claus when he arrived at Uptown Plaza, spacious Phoenix shopping center built and owned by the Webb Company, to inaugurate the Yule shopping season. Part of the crowd of parents and kiddies on hand to see St. Nick is pictured above.

SPECTACULAR ARRIVAL found Santa dropping out ot the sky in a modern helicopter, which landed easily on the spacious parking lot in center of ring formed by crowd.

Want To Swap Ideas For Cash? Hearken! Got any good ideas . . . ?

On how to save the Webb Company money?

H o w to improve efficiency of any of our operations?

How to reduce construction costs?

If so, perhaps they'll be worth money to you if you put 'em on paper and head for one of the new employees' suggestion boxes.

Gen. Mgr. L. C. Jacobson announced that "at our most recent management meeting it was agreed that our efficiency, costs, and general operations could be greatly improved by suggestions from our employees both in the office and in the field."

Suggestion boxes have been placed in employees' lounges at the Phoenix and Los Angeles offices and in each job field office.

Suggestions will be reviewed personally by Pres. Del E. Webb and Mr. Jacobson, executive vice-president.

Usable suggestions will be rewarded by bonuses of $10, $25, $50

Now, about those ideas you've had on how to improve Webb Company

operations . . .

Sahara Is 'Topped Out' The new Sahara Hotel now being

pushed toward completion at Phoenix was "topped out" when the last concrete pour on a roof section took place under Supt. Fred McDowell's direction Dec. 7. The 200-room hotel

will open early in 1956. The front portion of the structure

is two stories, graduating into three and then four floors toward the rear.

Dining in three rooms at the Sahara will accommodate 230 persons, and a Casbah Bar will seat an additional 51. It will boast a conference room offering seating facilities for meetings and also dining facilities for

banquets.

Sign displayed by a justice of the peace: "If you are fit to be tied, come

CHRISTMAS DISPLAY prepared by Uptown Plaza merchants awaited arrival of St. Nick.

The installment collector has a hard time keeping up with the

Joneses, too.


FUTURE ACTIVITIES of the Del £. Webb Construction Co. came in for some serious discussion af the annual tall management meeting held in Phoenix last month, with major projects now on the drawing boards in the company's program of building for investment. Participating in the two-day parley were these men: (above, from left): Del E. Webb, president; L. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president and general manager; J. R. Ashton, vice-president and Phoenix district manager; E. T. Davies, chief ot operations, Los Angeles; (below, from left): Dale E. Griffith, assistant business manager, Los Angeles; George Grantham, assistant secretary; H. E. Boice, chief of operations, Phoenix; W. J. Miller, business manager; Robert A. Becker, secretary-treasurer, and R. H. Johnson, vice-president and Los Angeles district manager.

Webb Becomes Ambassador

Writing to Editor Jerry McLain of

the Webb Spinner, an old friend,

Robert Eunson, chief of bureau of

The Associated Press in Tokyo, had

this to say of the recent Japanese tour

by Co-Owner Del Webb and his New

York Yankees:

"Your boss did himself proud in

Japan, as an ambassador of good will

and good fellowship. He went around

everywhere with the team and we

even got him to make a speech at the

Foreign Correspondents Club. When

I introduced him I told the story

about him building a whole town, on

order, and said that was the way we

did things in Arizona, and Del Webb

was that kind of man."

Parents Visiting Phoenix Mr. and Mrs. Charles Flint of Dela-

van, Wis., parents of Gene Flint of the

Webb Company's operations staff at

Phoenix, are spending the winter

months visiting in Phoenix.

Blessed is the man who is too busy

to worry in the daytime, and too tired

to lie awake at night.

SPINNER December,

Tour Of Pacific Islands And Japan With Yankees 'Sells' Del Webb On Baseball As Good Will Builder

After a triumphant 25-game tour with his New York Yankees through the Pacific islands and Japan, Owner Del E. Webb came back to the states last month more than ever convinced that big league baseball players are among the finest "ambassadors" the United States could send abroad.

He had some convincing facts to back up that belief!

Everywhere the Yankees went they personified that part of America dear to the heart of every youngster — the colorful big league ballplayer who is the king of swat, and invincible on the playing field.

From Hawaii through Japan and on to Okinawa, the Philippines and Guam, the Yankees were almost mobbed by baseball-mad fans, and their 25 games drew more than half a million fans. Of those 25 contests, the Bombers won 24, and the other was a 1-1 tie halted by darkness in the 10th inning.

Owner Webb, who accompanied the Yankees when Co-Owner Dan Topping decided his health would prevent his traveling abroad, returned with the impression gained from sportswriters and newsmen he saw abroad that the trip to the Pacific and Japan meant more for international good will than could have been gained by any ambassador.

"We had a good bunch of boys and they have nice wives," Webb declared. "They made a good impression on and off the field. Everywhere we went they told us we couldn't have sent anybody else who could have done more for friendly relations between the countries."

Besides Webb, baseball officials accompanying the Yanks included Ford Frick, baseball commissioner; Gen. Mgr. George Weiss, J. Arthur Fried-lund and Manager Casey Stengel of the Bombers, and their wives. The Stengels left the club at Manila to travel on around the world through the Middle East and Europe.

The tour, sponsored by the Maini-chi newspapers in Japan, drew an impressive total of 463,000 fans in that country, with an average of 28.937 per game. At Osaka the

Yankees defeated an all-star aggregation from Japan's professional league. 7-3. before 70,000 fans.

IN JAPAN with the Yankees, Del Webb found time to indulge briefly in a favorite pastime — golf. And he found the caddies there are pint-sized girls, with some of whom he's pictured. The girls are good at keeping track of drives, says Webb, but that's about the end of their usefulness. They can't speak English, hence couldn't tell him which way to shoot to the green, or how and where to avoid golfing trouble.

The final game of the tour, at Guam, provided a dramatic climax when the Bombers helped raise $15,000 to send a crippled boy and girl to Hawaii for medical treatment at the Hawaii Rehabilitation Hospital. Many of the crowd of 9,000 paid up to $50 a seat for the charity contest in which the Yanks bested the Far Eastern Air Force All Stars, 15-2, with Andy Carey slamming three homers. And then the crippled youngsters made the trip to Hawaii in the Yankees' chartered plane.

The Bombers' arrival in Tokyo was greeted by an eye-blinding flashbulb barrage, flower girls, autograph hunters, publicity seekers and about 1,000 fans who braved heavy rain at the Tokyo airport. The air terminal lobby was utter chaos. Youngsters fought to collect autographs of the players, their wives, club secretaries, and even news correspondents they didn't realize were stationed in Japan. Pretty Japanese girls carrying bo-

quets with large advertising streamers attached struggled to present their offerings to members of the Yankee party.

When order of a sort was restored, the Yankee players climbed into gaily-decorated U. S. Air Force jeeps, and crowds estimated at upward of 100,000 provided a roaring welcome along a 10-mile route to the Nikkatsu Hotel in downtown Tokyo. It required two hours for the brightly-decorated procession to move through jammed streets.

Two open convertibles at the head of the parade carried Commissioner Frick, Owner Webb, Weiss, Stengel and their wives. The rest of the party was strung out behind in jeeps piloted by airmen of the Far East Air Force.

The Yanks were slated for a closed workout at Kawasaki Stadium soon after their Tokyo arrival, but swarms of autograph hunters and school children pushed past the guards and invaded the park, surging through the stands, climbing fences to reach the field and piling into the dugout. The tourists took it all good-naturedly.

Owner Webb said he went to Japan expecting to find the Japanese players were good fielders. "I was disappointed," he declared. "They are more on the erratic side. They make some great plays — but they miss some, too. Their pitching is the best part of their game."

What class ball would they be considered capable of in the U. S.? "That's difficult to say," Webb answered. "Probably it would be Class A or B. The pitching is a little above that. But did you know they have other nationalities playing in Japan? An Hawaiian is their best center fielder. A Korean is their top pitcher. He stands 6' 2" and struck out 350 men this year."

But what pleasantly surprised Webb was the tremendous enthusiasm

generated over baseball and the Yankee visit. Men, women and children; everyone over there is interest

ed in baseball. Even the maids in the hotels and the girl caddies on the golf courses are baseball fans, he declared. And though they are accustomed to big press contingents wherever they play, the Yankees were


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amazed when, even away from Tokyo, they always had scores of sports writers and photographers covering their games.

Webb reported he had some opportunity to study architecture and construction while in Japan, observe how that nation is recovering from World War II devastation, and was able to talk to several Japanese contractors. He declared he visited in Osaka one of the most beautiful and modern bank buildings he has ever seen.

Of the Yankee excursion abroad, the Sporting News, baseball's "bible," had this to say:

"The trip was a big success from every standpoint, particularly in building good will, the chief objective. Indications are that there will be no visit to Japan by a major league club next year, despite an understanding that the newspaper, Yomiuri Shinbun, would sponsor a 1956 tour by a major club, preferably the


IT WAS 'YANKEES DAY' in Osaka when the American League champions arrived in Japan's second largest city on their foreign tour. Manager Stengel and Co-owner Del Webb are shown in an open car during motorcade through the city. — (Photo courtesy The Sporting News).

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R. A. Becker, Secretary R. G. Kenson, Assistant to the President

A. K. Stewart, Jr.

LEGAL AND INVESTMENT DEPARTMENT

T. F. Hetherington, Resident Counsel Emma Marie Miller J. W. Colachis

PHOENIX OFFICE 302 South 23rd Avenue, P. O. Box 4066, Phoenix, Arizona, Phone ALpine 8-7441

J. R. Ashton, Vice President and District Manager H. E. Boice, Chief of Operations Kim Bannister F. S. Murray A. C. Jacobson, Sr. E. W. Flint T. E. Breen O. F.Childress J. W. Meeker


W. J. Miller, Business Manager H. G. Winston P. G. Marks J. L. Morton J. P. McLain Rosa M. Kort G. G. Grantham Rose Romano D. L. Kauffman

Amy Jo Hafford Kara C. Newell Pearl S. Richardson Florence Olson T. P. Mulkern L. O. Hoeft Gladys Sanders Mary P. Moss R. L. Reeves LOS ANGELES OFFICE


E. T. Davies, Chief of Operations D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager E. H. Smith, Jr. Ralph Wanless Enola Owens Gerald Harris G. A. Anderson Martha Little F. O. Langell Alice Stears

M.F.Webb Sallie Tucker George Shaw Freda McDonald



CASPER, WYO., OFFICE P. O. Box 474 Phone 2-4556 Casper, Wyoming R. G. Fleming, Job Superintendent

El PASO, TEXAS, OFFICE P. O. Box 5097 6101-17 Montana St. El Paso, Texas Phone PRospect 8-2096

W. A. Warriner, Mgr. of Job Operations TUCSON, ARIZONA, OFFICE P. O. Box 7245, South Tucson Station Tucson, Arizona Phone 3-4002

T. G. Austin, Job Office Manager TUCSON ARIZ., OFFICE S?venth Ave. & Mable St. Tucson, Arizona Phone 4-5821 Walter Pritchett, Job Superintendent R. T. White, Job Office Manager

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE Fifth & Boylston Sts. Los Angeles, Calif., Phone Michigan 2906 J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer W. R. Foeht, Job Office Manager W. C. Edmundson, Job Accountant M. M. DeConinck E. B. York G. A. Murray, Jr. Lillian Whitaker

PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE 19th Ave. and Thomas Rd. Phoenix, Arizona

Kent Hamer, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF., OFFICE 9973 Santa Monica Blvd. Beverly Hills, Calif. Phone BRadshaw 2-8153 M. D. Stevens, Job Superintendent Cecil Drinkward, Job Engineer C F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager D. J. Kelly F. W. Danielson Mary Somerfeld C. H. Dean E. L. Girod R. O. Reichard, Jr.

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, OFFICE 1131 Austin Highway San Antonio, Texas Phone TAylor 2-7701 W. A. Warriner, Mgr. of Job Operations J. S. Aubin, Job Office Manager

SAN DIEGO, CALIF., OFFICE P O. Box 9396 San Diego 9, Calif. Phone BRoadway 3-6234

R. C. Hinton, Manager of Job Operations J. N. McPhee, Job Superintendent P. D. Clouthier, Job Office Manager C. J. Daniel

PHOENIX, ARIZ, OFFICE 13th Ave. & Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone CRestwood 4-5828 Tom Gilbreath, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager J. N. Fisher J. P. Hayden A. S. Roof C F. Welch

Business was way down. The boss called in the salesmen and announced a new sales contest, which he was going to manage personally.

"What does the winner get?" asked an eager beaver.

"He gets to keep his job," came the boss' crisp answer.

Gambling: A method of getting nothing for something.

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Some people who appear to be head and shoulders above the crowd are actually riding on other men's shoulders.

Catty Neighbor: "Her bathroom towels are monogrammed H E R S and TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN."

Boss to Secretary: "Make fifteen copies of that so we can run across a copy when we need it."

Volume 9 December, 195S No. 12 Published by the












Industrial Editors

Webb Sees Big League Baseball As Valuable Builder Of Good Will I Continued from Preceding Page) Dodgers. It is felt that from a financial standpoint, it would be ill-advised for any major club or major league all-star group to try to follow the highly successful sweep of the Yankees.

"Instead, it is reported that Japanese baseball officials would prefer to arrange a visit by a Pacific Coast League team next year. The Japanese fans now know that their brand of ball doesn't compare with that of the American major leagues. However, they feel their teams might have a chance of success in a series between the Coast League and Japanese professional champions, or between respective Coast and Japanese all-star teams."

Our first birthday list for the new year brings a salute from The Webb Spinner to these fine Webb Company folks who will observe anniversaries during January: T o m Breen, Phoenix . . . Ed Davies, Los Angeles . . T o m Mulkern, Phoenix . . A. J. Hafford, Phoenix . . M. D. Stevens, Los Angeles R. G. Fleming, Casper, W y o John Morton. Phoenix . . R. G. Kenson. Los Angeles . R. C. Hinton, Los Angeles Fritz Danielson, L. A. . .

Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan.11 Jan.14 Jan.18 Jan. 26 Jan. 27 Jan.28

Vol. 10, No. 1 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, JANUARY, 1956 8 Pages

Santa Anita Flamingo Started; Opening Set For Sahara At Phoenix

Site work began this month on the swank new Flamingo Santa Anita motor hotel in Arcadia, Calif., and formal opening of the new million-dollar Hotel Sahara now being pushed to completion at Phoenix was set for

Feb. 19. George Gobel of television and

movie fame will head a group of film celebrities planning to attend the Sahara opening ceremonies. Gobel is a stockholder in the new Sahara, which not only is being erected by Webb Company workmen but is partly owned by the construction company.


Excavators On Union Oil Site Move 302,000 Yards Of Earth

A big earth-moving task designed to establish foundations and provide a huge underground automobile parking garage for the new $20,000,000 height-limit Union Oil Center in downtown Los Angeles was in high gear this

month. Excavation and earth-moving crews supervised by Webb Company con

struction men had, up to Jan. 1, of thanks to these excavation men and

moved 302,000 cubic yards of earth and thereby created a yawning crater on the edge of the Los Angeles business district. There the 13-story, diamond-shaped home office building and three auxiliary office and service units of the Union Oil Company of California will begin rising this year.

And many a motorist speeding along a couple of Los Angeles freeways in future years will owe a vote

their project—for the surplus earth has been going into freeway construction. John J. Fahey, chief of operations for the Webb Company, reports 1,000,000 cubic yards already have been used as fill on the Long Beach Freeway and 202,000 cubic yards on the Harbor Freeway.

The lengthy Los Angeles sand and gravel strike only recently settled


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YAWNING EXCAVATION now marks site of new Union Oil Center in Los Angeles.


Del Webb Is Named Officer In Wyoming Uranium Development

Pres. Del E. Webb, whose business investments extend from construction to major league baseball, oil, copper mining, hotels, and shopping centers, now has widened his interests to include a stake in what may prove the nation's next great developing industry.

An announcement from Casper, Wyo., recently stated Mr. Webb has been elected vice-president and a member of the board of directors of the Little Star Uranium Company, Inc., which has offices in Casper and is incorporated under Wyoming state laws.

The Little Star company has extensive mining rights for uranium and associated minerals over a vast acreage in Wyoming. First exploratory efforts have resulted in shipment of some ore and the discovery of promising ore bodies that probably will be mined during good weather next summer, Mr. Webb said.

Reports from Casper indicate the management is actively engaged in the investigation of more mining rights and acquisition of those that seem worthwhile, thus adding to holdings which already are the most extensive in that state.

Exploration of the properties, Little Star officials said, has been limited since the work was started late last summer, and always is hampered by adverse weather during the winter months, leaving the great bulk of prospecting work yet to be done.

Construction Plans For 1 9 5 6 Reviewed; Gifts Distributed At Annual Parties

A factual presentation of the Webb Company's construction work and plans for 1956 and future years, accompanied by a review of company-owned investments which contribute earnings to employee profit-sharing, featured the annual Christmas parties for Webb Company folks at Phoenix and Los Angeles offices.

Earth-Movers Create Yawning Excavation On Union Oil Site

(Continued from Page 1) caused some delay on Union Oil Center construction, but Supt. Neil Drinkward and his crew chiefs minimized the delay considerably by rescheduling operations in order to leave work requiring concrete for a later date. Thus it never did become necessary to shut down the job due to lack of concrete.

Steel pilings now are being driven to bedrock on the excavation site to support the height-limit home office building which, because of its location on a hill, will be the highest structure in the city, towering even above the gigantic Los Angeles City Hall. Beneath the structure parking will be provided for 1,500 cars in a three-level garage.

Christmas gifts of savings bonds equivalent to four weeks in salary for employees who have been with the company a year or longer were distributed, after which all hands were served champagne and entertained at a buffet luncheon.

The review of the Webb Company construction and the forecast for 1956 and the forseeable future was prepared by Gen. Mgr. L. C. Jacobson and presented at Phoenix by R. A. Becker, secretary-treasurer, and at Los Angeles by R. G. Kenson, assistant to the president.

In this presentation it was pointed out that Company officials some six years ago recognized the extreme competitive conditions likely to arise in the construction industry, primarily as a result of many new building firms created during World War II, and that since the construction industry is a very hazardous business subject to extreme peaks and valleys of volume and profit, "something had to be done to stabilize this situation."

"We decided to create our own diversification by building for equities in such things as shopping centers, motor hotels, office buildings and other investments of like nature. This, of course, meant that our profits would be deferred until these projects could be built and income received from them, generally a period of two to three years, sometimes more.

"However, the ultimate rewards justify the deferment. When the income does start, it comes in every year without further effort from us; effort that we can be directing toward other profitable work.

"The fact that we have gone into this diversification does not mean that we are going out of the general contracting business. On the contrary, we are working just as hard as ever to develop contract work, but we are trying to select our work rather than waste time running around the country bidding a lot of cheap construction that would not accomplish the things we want for our company and

for our employees."

The $20,000,000 Union Oil Center,

Formal Opening Is Set Feb. 19 For New Sahara

(Continued from Page 1) The 200-room motor hotel, which

will be one of the most modern and fashionable in the Southwest, is due to begin receiving guests about February 1 and should be operating smoothly by the time of formal opening ceremonies, according to Mike Robinson, managing director of the Sahara, which is part of the Flamingo Hotels chain.

The Flamingo Santa Anita, which soon will rise on a picturesque site across the street from Santa Anita race track, also will be a unit in the Flamingo chain and also will be partly owned by the Webb firm.

Expansion of the Flamingo Motor Hotel in Tucson is under way by the Webb Company, with addition of 70 units and two conference rooms for convention use.

now being built by Webb crews in downtown Los Angeles, was cited as the type of work which is the company's goal, and the presentation mentioned several other multi-million dollar projects now in formative stages.

The company's investment in shopping centers and motor hotels in Arizona, Texas and California was reviewed for employees, and they were told: "Our interest in each of these ventures is owned by the Del E. Webb Construction Co. and each of you will benefit from the profits produced by them." Employees were told that Phoenix housing operations are gathering momentum and appear likely to become a very fine profit-maker;

and that the Clairmont project near San Diego is in full swing and operations there probably will continue

another two years. Officials acquainted employees with

plans for a project in the Mid-west, though not yet publicly announced,

which could mean $30 million to $50 million in construction. Preparatory work may take two to three years, but the end result has great possibilities,

they were told.

January, 1956 THE WEBB SPINNER Page 3

N e w Hotel Sahara At Phoenix Getting Finishing Touches

TO A CASUAL OBSERVER, it looked like the new Hotel Sahara at Phoenix was a long way from being near ready to do business when the photos on this page were made the second week in January. But construction men expected to be out of the way so the first guests could be welcomed February 1, and grand opening ceremonies have been scheduled for February 19.

SAHARA DINERS, when hotel is opened, will have attractive view ot landscaped patio through huge wall of glass, as shown above. AT LEFT— From tiled veranda in front of one of patio suites, this view looks across swimming pool. But a big cleanup job and landscaping program still remained when photo was made.

LOOKING INTO PATIO from a third-floor balcony. At right is one of the wings of maximum four-story height. Each room his individual lounging and sun deck for guests.


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rft 'Pfoettix and ^,o& rf*tyele& There was considerable activity in the Phoenix and Los Angeles offices of the Del E. Webb Construction Co. on Friday, December 23, but little of it concerned construction. Tasks of their busy working days were laid aside by a legion of employees that day, and gaiety reigned at the annual office Christmas parties. There were generous Yule bonuses, a sumptuous luncheon served employees at each office, and even champagne for those who cared to "wet their whistle." Photos on these and the next two pages picture some of the festive events.

OUT OF DOORS FOR YULE PICTURE, Los Angeles crew didn't have to blink because usual smog hid the sun. But here's the gang, from left, (back row), Al Telford, Cliff Dean, John Fahey, Gerry Harris, Ray Reichard, Dole Kelley, Alice Stears, M. D. Stevens, R. G. Kenson, Andy Anderson, Neil Drinkward, Ed Davies, Fritz Danielson, Ed Smith, Del Webb, Jack McPhee, George Shaw, Bob Johnson, Morris DeConinck, Ralph Wanless and M. F. Chambers; (front row) Baird York, Bill Foeht, Cecil Drinkward, Wally Edmundson, Mary Somerfeld, Frank Langell, Freda McDonald, Dick Hinton, Sallie Tucker, Appy Guizot, Enola Owens, Gil Murray and Cecil Kintzi. Missing from photo, because he was snapping camera shutter, is Dale Griffith.

ANNUAL 'SHIRTSLEEVES' PICTURE brought ol are A. S. Roof, Gladys Sanders, A. K. Stewai Lorraine Greager, Frank Murray, Fred McDj Bob Becker, Kara Newell, Jess Fisher, Bobb Moss, Jim Colachis, Marie Miller, Speedy Vi ton, Tom Hetherington, Milford Rigg, Paul Welch and Jack Hayden; (kneeling in ion Meeker, Kent Hamer, George Grantham, U Boice, Blackie Hoeft, Tony Kohl and Jack For

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IN CHOW LINE at Los Angeles party are George Shaw, Alice Stears, M. D. Stevens and M. F. Chambers.


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POP JACOBSON HONORED. Bob Becker read the greeting, while Gen. Mgr. L. C. Jacobson stood by, but it was his dad, A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, left, who got the gift—an attractive set of initial cufflinks from feminine employees of the Phoenix office.

WENT THAT-AW AY! Vice Pres. Joe Ashton, left, points ceiling-ward to indicate to Bill Warriner direction taken by flying cork as he opened champagne bottle. At right, George Granthan and Evelyn Martin serve champagne to John Morton, Tom Mulkern, Dave Kauffman and Owen Childress.


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TYING ON FEEDBAG. Part of the Los Angeles office looked like a banquet room when tables were spread for the Christmas luncheon. Seated in foreground, from left, are Appy Guizot, Ray Reichard, Fritz Danielson, Frank Langell, Cecil Kintzi, Dole Kelley, M. F. Chambers, George Shaw and Al Telford.

CONVERSATIONALIST. W e don't know what the conversation concerned, but John Fahey was the only one who wasn't too busy to talk when this luncheon scene was snapped. On John's right is Dole Kelley, on his left Jack McPhee and Cliff Dean.

THE BIG POUR. Andy Anderson pops open the bottles and Gil Murray pours at the champagne table. Lineup, from right to left, includes Dale Griffith, Freda McDonald, Murray, Sallie Tucker, Alice Stears and Wally Edmundson. AT RIGHT—Dale pours a bit of champagne for Enola Owens and Del Webb.



PEL f W E B B

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A. K. Stewart, Jr.





H. E. Boice, Chief of Operations Kim Bannister F. S. Murray A. C. Jacobson, Sr. E. W. Flint T. E. Breen O. F. Childress J. W. Meeker R. L. Reeves


W. J. Miller, Business Manager H. G. Winston Amy Jo Hafford P. G. Marks Kara C. Newell J. L. Morton Pearl S. Richardson J. P. McLain Florence Olson Rosa M. Kort T. P. Mulkern G. G. Grantham L. O. Hoeft Rose Romano Gladys Sanders D. L. Kauffman Mary P. Moss

LOS ANGELES OFFICE


E. T. Davies, Chief of Operations D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager E. H. Smith, Jr. Ralph Wanless Enola Owens Gerald Harris G A. Anderson Martha Little F. O. Langell Alice Stears

M.F.Webb Sallie Tucker George Shaw Freda McDonald

PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE

First & Polk Sts. Phoenix, Arizona Phone ALpine 2-3871



T. G. Austin, Job Office Manager TUCSON ARIZ., OFFICE

Seventh Ave. & Mable St. Tucson, Arizona Phone 4-5821 Walter Pritchett, Job Superintendent R. T. White, Job Office Manager

ARCADIA, CALIF., OFFICE 130 West Huntington Drive Arcadia, Calif. W. A. Warriner, Mgr. of Job Operations Stanton Bateman, Job Superintendent R. W. Armstrong, Job Engineer J. S. Aubin, Job Office Manager

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE Fifth & Boylston Sts. Los Angeles, Calif., Phone MAd i son 6-2211 J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer W. R. Foeht, Job Office Manager W. C. Edmundson, Job Accountant M. M. DeConinck E. B. York G. A. Murray, Jr. Lillian Whitaker


BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF., OFFICE 9973 Santa Monica Blvd. Beverly Hills, Calif. Phone BRadshaw 2-8153 M. D. Stevens, Job Superintendent Cecil Drinkward, Job Engineer C. F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager D. J. Kelly F. W. Danielson Mary Somerfeld C. H. Dean

R. O. Reichard, Jr. PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE

Central Ave. & Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Kent Hamer, Job Superintendent

SAN DIEGO, CALIF., OFFICE 4330 Moraga St. P. O. Box 9396 San Diego 9, Calif. Phone BRoadway 3-6234


PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE 13th Ave. & Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone CRestwood 4-5828 Tom Gilbreath, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager J. N. Fisher J. P. Hayden A. S. Roof C. F. Welch

Visit Valley Of Sun Dale Griffith of Los Angeles, assistant business manager of the company, and wife, Louise, spent the New Year's week-end in Phoenix and the Salt River Valley, visiting relatives and friends and relaxing in the bright sunshine. Louise, who suffered a severe leg fracture early last year, finally can get around most of the time without the brace she was forced to wear so long.

Heads Sheriff's Posse

A. C. Jacobson, Jr., a brother of

Gen. Mgr. L. C. Jacobson and a former

Webb Company carpenter, has been

elected president of the San Pedro

Valley Sheriff's Posse. Jacobson and

his family reside at San Manuel,

where they established and still oper

ate the town's only trailer court, and

where they are planning to erect a

modern motel.

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Industrial Editors

Tom Breen To Manage Phoenix Housing Department Tom Breen, who joined the Webb

Company in 1953 to direct housing

sales, has been appointed manager

of the firm's Phoenix housing depart

ment.

He will continue his present activi

ties as sales manager and, in addition,

will be in charge of all phases of the

work involving housing projects in

Phoenix, it was announced by Vice-

Pres. J. R. Ashton.

Two projects presently are under

way in Phoenix, the Camelback Vil

lage development at 15th Avenue and

Camelback Road, and Encanto Es

tates at 19th Avenue and Thomas

Road.

Heartiest congratulations and a

wish for continued health and pros

perity are extended by The Webb

Spiner staff to the following Webb

Company employees who will observe

birthday anniversaries during Feb'

ruary:

John J. Fahey, Los Angeles Feb. 1

Tony Kohl, Phoenix Feb. 4

George Grantham, Phoenix . Feb. 8

Morris DeConinck, L A ... Feb 12

Frank Langell, L A Feb. 13

Paul Marks, Phoenix .... Feb. 16

A. C. Jacobson, Sr., Phoenix Feb. 17

R. H. Johnson, L A Feb. 26

Vol. 10, No. 2 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, FEBRUARY, 1956 8 Pages

Southern California AGC Names Webb Company Executive As Director

Robert H. (Bob) Johnson, Los Angeles manager for the Del E. Webb Construction Co., has been elected a director of the Southern California chapter of the Associated General Contractors, and with other directors and officers was installed at a huge inaugural banquet Jan. 26 in the Bilt-more Bowl at the Los Angeles Bilt-more Hotel. More than 950 contractor mem

bers, guests and public officials attended the ceremonies.

New officers of the Southern California A G C chapter are headed by Walter F. Maxwell, and include James Cagle, Donald E. Kelbey and Donald F. Shaw as vice-presidents and Carl H. Wittenberg, retiring president, as

treasurer. Serving with Bob Johnson as di

rectors are George Thwing, Mr. Cagle, H. J. Yount, Mr. Maxwell, R. F. Rasey, John Sawyer, R. W. Spicer, Mr. Wittenberg and Mr. Shaw, J. W .


WORST STORM to hit Los Angeles in 20 years, bringing almost eight inches of rain in 36 hours, created this "lake" in huge excavation on Union Oil project site, requiring 6B hours to pump it dry. (Additional pictures. Paaes 4 and 5).

CONGRATULATIONS to Walter F. Maxwell, center, new president of the Southern California chapter of the Associated General Contractors, are offered by R. H. (Bob) Johnson, right, Los Angeles manager and a vice-president of the Webb Company, who also was named an AGC director. At left is Donald F. Shaw, new vice-president and manager of the chapter.

Record Los Angeles Rain Swamps Union Oil Job A steady drizzle of rain greeted Bill

Warriner and Jerry McLain as they stepped from an airliner at Los Angeles International Airport the morning of Jan. 25 — and neither had brought a raincoat from sunny Phoenix. •^^••MHKKH

They were en route to the Webb Company's motor hotel job at nearby Arcadia, and McLain — viewing the murky skies and fog-shrouded airport with dismay — also had planned some photographic work on the Union Oil Center project in downtown Los An

geles.

They didn't know it then, but Warriner and McLain were walking into



Opening Of New Phoenix Sahara Due Feb. 19

SWANK NEW SAHARA MOTOR HOTEL at Phoenix, which will have George Gobel and members of his television cast at its official opening Feb. 19, was buzzing with activity soon after welcoming its first guests Feb. 1. Beside one Sahara entrance a life-size stone camel and colorfully-garbed figure of an Arab greet visitors. Photo above shows tur-baned Mike Robinson, managing director of the Sahara and the Flamingo chain of hotels, posing with Sue LaFollette, pretty Phoenix model, astride the camel.

IN COLORFUL DINING ROOM at the Sahara, Gen. Mgr. L. C. Jacobson, left, and Vice-Pres. J. R. Ashton of the Webb Company chat with Marion W. Isbell, who operates four restaurants in Chicago, is a stockholder in the Sahara and operates the dining room, coffee shop and bar in the new hostelry.

Boss to Secretary: "Make fifteen An opportunist is one who meets copies of that so we can run across a the wolf at the door and appears the copy when we need it." next day in a fur coat.

Record Los Angeles Rain Swamps Union Oil Job

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the worst Southern California storm in more than 20 years — a downpour which lasted most of two nights and two days, stalled thousands of motor cars, forced more than 1,500 persons to evacuate their homes, shut down many schools, and forced factories, businesses and stores to close early so their employees could get home before dark over the flooded streets, freeways and roads.

The two-day storm poured nearly eight inches of rain on downtown Los Angeles, and at Arcadia the precipitation totaled almost nine inches. The deluge virtually halted con

struction activities throughout Southern California, temporarily idling Webb Company crews at Arcadia and on the Union Oil site, where, however, a score of men labored for hours, some wading in waist-deep water, to operate pumping equipment necessary to empty the block-square excavation of hundreds of thousands of gallons of water.

Leaving the airport the morning of their arrival with Office Mgr. Joe Aubin, who met them, Warriner, McLain and Aubin needed almost two hours to reach Arcadia over flooded streets, with rain falling incessantly.

It rained all that day, and through the night. Rain still was falling next morning. McLain snapped a photo through a car window of the soaked Arcadia jobsite and then, with Warriner and Job Supt. Stan Bateman, headed for downtown Los Angeles where the latter were scheduled to attend a meeting with union representatives and McLain wanted to visit the

Union Oil jobsite.

Up to 9 a.m. Los Angeles had received 4.06 inches of rain. From 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. there was another .59 of an inch, from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m. another .69 of an inch and in the next hour, until noon, the downpour increased to .79 of an inch. Another half inch came during the noon hour.

The pumping operation in the block-square Union Oil excavation. from which approximately 350.000

cubic yards of earth had been removed at the time the storm broke. required 68 hours, with ten pumps operating, and the rain caused an approximate two weeks delay, although some men were able to return to their

jobs as the water receded.


AT SPEAKERS' TABLE in the Los Angeles Biltmore Bowl when the Southern California chapter ot Associated General Contractors installed 1956 officers and directors, Vice-Pres. R. H. Johnson of Webb Company, fourth from right, facing camera, chats with R. W. Spicer, a new director. Next to Spicer is Donald E. Kelbey, a vice-president, and at right is L. D. Jenson, a director. Beyond Johnson, with back to camera, John McLeod of Macco Corporation, chatting with a visitor to the speakers' table; Ford J. Twaits of the Ford J. Twaits Co.; Don Shaw, manager of the AGC chapter, and Carl H. Wittenberg, a partner in Twaits Company.

WEBB COMPANY GUESTS at the AGC dinner, besides Mr. Johnson, included Dale E. Griffith, above, left, Los Angeles, assistant business manager; W. J. Miller, Phoenix, business manager, and Jerry McLain, who snapped photo. Across table, from left, are three guests from San Francisco, from left, E. F. Ward, B. F. Modglin and T. E. Connolly.

Cowboy Bill Is Honored During his "cowboy" days when

he was town manager and unofficial "mayor" of San Manuel, the Webb Company's Bill Warriner also was an active member of the San Pedro Valley Sheriff's Posse. And when he went back to the Southeastern Arizona copper mining community recently

for a brief visit between construction jobs he is directing, Bill was honored by members of the Sheriff's Posse. They presented to him a beautiful silver belt buckle as a "Sportsmanship Award."

The trouble with many people in trying times is that they stop trying.

Bob Johnson Is Named Director By AGC Group

(Continued from Page ll Bernard, Richard M. Lane, N. P. Van Valkenburgh, W . 0. Ramey, John Connolly, Mr. Kelbey, L. D. Jenson and William F. Lyte.

Mr. Johnson, who has been with the Webb Company more than 20 years, became manager of its Los Angeles headquarters in 1944. He is a native of Phoenix, was educated in Arizona schools, and first worked for the Webb Company on a Flagstaff college construction project.

Mr. Maxwell, the new Southern California chapter president, has headed the M. F. Maxwell Construction Co. since 1952, and has headquarters in the Los Angeles area. He was a member of the A G C board of directors in 1954 and last year served as vice-president and chairman of the chapter's contract and specifications committee. 0

For Distinguished Service A "Citation for Distinguished Serv

ice" has been presented to Pres. Del

E. Webb and the construction company "for unselfish cooperation and outstanding achievement" in the construction last year of the new Kansas City Municipal Stadium. The citation was signed by Arnold Johnson, president of the Kansas City Athletics.


Record fain Swamps Union OH Site Late-January Storm Bringing T o Los Angeles Almost Eight Inches Of Precipitation Bogs D o w n Traffic, Closes Schools A n d Factories, A n d Delays Construction Progress

7-INCH RAIN HITS LA. 1500 Flee Flooded Homes EssEaai Schools Are Closed Storm Blocks

Hundreds of So. Cal. Roads

Ike Asks Big . f List Roads \

Cancer Study closed THE RECORD RAIN stole the headlines for two days in Los Angeles newspapers.

SAND BAGS were placed. site (above) to keep out operating a pomp to emp'

^ February, 1956 THE WEBB SPINNER Page 5

NG at the rate of more than one half inch every hour, workmen are shown struggling in rainwater lake to ing.

e corner of excavation /t. AT RIGHT-Workmen si in the excavation.

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Damp Day On The Arcadia, Calif., Jobsite &eat6d Sodden

TVeM&.Votfo Friends among Webb Company em

ployees were saddened last month by news of the death of a former Webb Company employee and the death of the husband of another former employee.

Ward W. Mulhern, a timekeeper for the Webb Company during World War II construction, died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix on Jan. 23 at the age of 59. He suffered a relapse soon after undergoing a serious throat operation. Ward and his wife, Gladys, who survives, had for a decade owned and operated the Green Acres Trailer Park at 2065 West Van Buren St. in Phoenix. Last rites were held Jan. 26 and Mr. Mulhern was buried in Memory Lawn Memorial Park.

Nelson F. Bow, 74, passed away Jan. 10 at Boise, Ida., of coronary thrombosis after undergoing an operation Dec. 29. He was the husband of Maye Young Bow, who was a Phoenix office employee until the late summer of 1950. Funeral services were held Jan. 14 in Nampa, Ida., where the Bows resided.

PONTOONS might have been a valuable addition to the Webb Company job office at Arcadia, Calif., had the late-January rains continued much longer. Photo, taken from inside a parked automobile during a steady drizzle, shows Office Mgr. Joe Aubin waving from door. Almost nine inches of rain in two days halted construction operations there on the new Flamingo Santa Anita motor hotel and caused some damage to excavations tor footings.

Group Insurance Plan Changes Add To Benefits For Employees Changes in the Webb Company's

group insurance program which will mean additional benefits to a majority of employees were made effective

Jan. 1. Briefly, they are:

1. Increasing the allowance for doctor office calls from $3 to $5.

2. Increasing daily hospital benefits from $10 to $14.

3. New allowances for laboratory fees and X-ray charges not incurred at a hospital.

4. Other increases in maximum hospital extras, medical calls, etc.

Company officials said the plan is now is by far the most up-to-date obtainable in the group insurance field.

Gambling: A method of getting nothing for something.

You probably wouldn't worry about what people' think of you, if you knew how seldom they do.

Golfing Horseplay At The Phoenix Open

^

Overseas Circulation Gains The good will junket of Co-Owner

Del E. Webb and his New York Yan

kees to Hawaii and the larger Japa

nese cities following last fall's World

Series has brought The Webb Spinner

two regular "subscribers" in Japan.

They are new friends Mr. Webb ac

quired in the Orient — Yoshiro Oh-

bayashi, president of the Osaka and

Tokyo contracting firm of Ohbayashi-

Gumi Co., Ltd., and Robert Eunson,

former Phoenician who now is Asso

ciated Press bureau chief in Tokyo.

THEY GAVE OXYGEN to Dizzy Dean in a little good-natured horseplay preceding the start ot the pro-amateur phase of this month's Phoenix Open golf tournament, and it just caused Ol' Diz to burn up the course and, with his professional partner, Joe Turnesa, chalk up a best-ball low of 60 which won the event. Helping administer the bottled oxygen to Diz are, from left: A. Lee Moore, Jimmy Demaret, Joe Turnesa, Del E. Webb and Gil Dye. Dean joked that it would raise his handicap.


Writers Laud Del Webb At Sports Award Dinner

Phoenix sports writers, members of the Phoenix Press Box Association, paid high tribute to Co-Owner Del Webb of the New York Yankees at their seventh annual Sports Award Dinner held Jan. 31. With Phil Harris of radio and tele

vision fame serving as their master of ceremonies and spokesmen, the Press Box Association members lauded Webb for his friendship and cooperation, and his valuable assistance to them in presenting each of their din

ners. The sports writers entertained

about 800 persons at the dinner in the Thunderbird Room of Hotel Westward Ho. Webb and Dizzy Dean spoke on baseball. Other sports personalities at the speakers' table included Bill Rigney, Stan Hack, Gene Littler, Jim Wilson, Bob Mathias, Rex Ellsworth, Jack Fleck and Red Sanders. Selected by the Press Box Associa

tion as the top amateur athlete of the year in Arizona was Art Luppino, University of Arizona football star. Leading professional athlete was Jim Bryan, Phoenix auto racer, and top coach of the year was Dan Devine of Arizona State College at Tempe.

Sports Award Dinner Attracts Celebrities

Wonders Never Cease! Ever wonder about the wonderful

assortment of articles the average woman carries in her purse? Evelyn Martin, secretary at the Phoenix office, went through a "house cleaning" in her purse the other day and this is the surprising array she produced —one wallet, one check book, two fountain pens, three (yes sir, three) cigaret lighters A N D five books of matches (when she wants a light, she wants a light) ; one pair of glasses, two combs, one perfume bottle stopper, one bottle of perfume, one compact, three lipsticks, one almost-new band-aid, one package of gum, one set of keys, one button, one mirror, one letter, one bobby pin, one pair of gloves and 98 cents in change.

Back On The Job Bobby Spaulding, secretary to

Vice-Pres. J. R. Ashton, recently returned to her duties at the Phoenix office after an absence of a couple of weeks during which she underwent a severe operation.

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GAB FEST at cocktail party preceding Sports Award Dinner involved above group, from left: A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Roy Drachman, Bob Gold-water, Phil Harris and L. C. Jacobson.

WEBB COMPANY guests at dinner included, from left: L. C. Jacobson, Pop Jacobson, Roy Drachman, Joe Ashton, Mike Robinson, Jim Miller, Paul Marks and Jerry McLain, who snapped the picture.



EEL E.WEBB

CONSTRUCTION



A. K. Stewart, Jr.



PHOENIX OFFICE


H. E. Boice, Chief of Operations Kim Bannister F. S. Murray A. C. Jacobson, Sr. E. W. Flint T. E. Breen O. F. Childress J. W. Meeker R. L. Reeves


W. J. Miller, Business Manager H. G. Winston P. G. Marks J. L. Morton J. P. McLain Rosa M. Kort G. G. Grantham Rose Romano D. L. Kauffman

Amy Jo Hafford Kara C. Newell Pearl S. Richardson Florence Olson T. P. Mulkern L. O. Hoeft Gladys Sanders Mary P. Moss Mary Jane Spandau LOS ANGELES OFFICE


T. Davies, Chief of Operations D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager H. Smith, Jr. Ralph Wanless Enola Owens Gerald Harris A. Anderson Martha Little F. O. Langell Alice Stears

M. F. Webb Sallie Tucker George Shaw Freda McDonald





ARCADIA, CALIF., OFFICE 130 West Huntington Drive Arcadia, Calif. Phone DOuglas 7-3520 W. A. Warriner, Mgr. of Job Operations Stanton Bateman, Job Superintendent R. W. Armstrong, Job Engineer J. S. Aubin, Job Office Manager

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE Fifth & Boylston Sts. Los Angeles, Calif., Phone MAdison 6-2211 J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer W. R. Foeht, Job Office Manager W. C. Edmundson, Job Accountant M. M. DeConinck E. B. York G. A. Murray, Jr. Lillian Whitaker


BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF., OFFICE 9973 Santa Monica Blvd. Beverly Hills, Calif. Phone BRadshaw 2-8153 M. D. Stevens, Job Superintendent Cecil Drinkward, Job Engineer C. F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager D. J. Kelly F. W. Danielson Mary Somerfeld C. H. Dean

R. O. Reichard, Jr. PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE

Central Ave. & Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Kent Hamer, Job Superintendent


R. C. Hinton, Manager of Job Operation: J. N. McPhee, Job Superintendent P. D. Clouthier, Job Office Manager C. J. Daniel

PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE 13th Ave. & Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone CRestwood 4-5828 Tom Gilbreath, Job Superintendent T. P. Koht, Job Office Manager J. N. Fisher J. P. Hayden A. S. Roof C. F. Welch

^Ott&datymi Greetings and best wishes from The Webb Spinner to a couple of employees who observe birthday anniversaries during March:

T. F. Hetherington, Phoenix March 2

Gilbert A. Murray,

Los Angeles March 10

Psychiatrists say that in the process of thinking, blood is drawn from the feet to the brain. This, perhaps, explains why, if we think very long about a proposition, we get cold feet.

A local clergyman, upon hearing that liberalism was creeping into the churches, remarked, "If that is true, I hope it will soon strike the contribution box."

Volume 10 February, 1956





No. 2

Del E. Webb R.A. Becker

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE

Amy Jo Hafford

EDITOR Jerry McLain



Dale Griffith, Los Angeles CIRCULATION MANAGER Kara Caroline (Casey) Newell



Industrial Editors

I. C. Jacobson W . J. Miller

Happy He Lost 'Em Baird York, a member of the Webb

Company force at Union Oil Center, recently gave up three wisdom teeth to the dentist and, since returning to work, hasn't complained a bit about losing them.

The man who saves money nowadays isn't a miser—he's a wizard.

HAZARDOUS BUSINESS. Owen Childress of the Phoenix office housing department, talking on the telephone with » client, reached for papers in a filing cabinet top drawer. Top heavy, the whole cabinet tipped over — but Owen calmly continued his telephone conversation.

Vol. 10, No. 3 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, MARCH, 1956 12 Paaes

PART OF THRONG which jammed the patio of the new Sahara Hotel in Phoenix for official opening ceremonies last month. George Gobel, one of Sahara's stockholders, brought his television cast to Phoenix for the program.

ANOTHER CROWD, unable to get into hotel's patio, waited patiently in the street outside the Sahara until Gobel could bring his entourage there to repeat his program from a second stage. Many spectators also lined roof of the First National parking garage across the street.

Sahara's Opening Program Is Greeted By Record Turnout

The dazzling new Sahara Motor Hotel, a multi-million dollar hostelry built in downtown Phoenix by the Del E. Webb Construction Co. and officially opened to the public in mid-February, already is being hailed as the motor hotel of the future.

Its acceptance by the traveling public was immediate and overwhelming even for its builders and owners, and its official opening jampacked every foot of seating and standing space with thousands of spectators on the inside while other thousands overflowed into the street outside.

This opening had all the color and fanfare of a Hollywood premiere, for George Gobel of television fame — himself a Sahara stockholder —

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Uptown Plaza Center Wins National Award

National recognition came this month to Uptown Plaza, the South-west's largest and most modern shopping center which the Webb Company built and opened last fall at Central Avenue and Camelback Road in Phoenix.

An "Award of Merit for Neighborhood Development" was presented to the Webb Company in national competition conducted by the National Association of Home Builders.

Uptown Plaza was the nation's only shopping center to win such an award from N A H B , the other nine presentations being to builders and their architect and land planner associates for housing developments and rental apartments.

The award was made jointly to the Webb Company; to H. H. Green, Phoenix architect who designed Up-



Sahara Provides Downtown Accommodations For Motor Traveler

MOTOR ENTRANCE to beautiful new Sahara Hotel in downtown Phoenix leads from First Street at Polk Street.

PARKING SPACE for guests' cars is immediately adjacent to their rooms. Pictured is the east side of the 200-room hotel, fronting on Second Street.


Colorful Setting Belies Sahara's Location In Heart Of City

SPACIOUS GARDEN PATIO at the new Sahara Hotel (above; introduces visitors to vistas of tropical splendor.

DOWNTOWN LOCATION of swank motor hostelry is shown in air view at right. Sahara is but a few blocks from geographical heart of the Arizona capital city, and many of its guests arrive by train and plane. Sahara has a main dining room, cocktail lounge, coffee house, three private dining rooms for service clubs, conferences and convention use, and several retail stores, a beauty salon and barber shop on its First Street side. Of concrete and cement block construction, it ranges from two to four stories in height, and rooms have private sun decks facing the courts, the patio and swimming pool.


Unusual Features Establish Sahara As Standout SAotor Hostelry

IMPRESSIVE MOTOR ENTRANCE at Sahara is pictured in two views above. Guests park here while registering.

NIGHT VIEWS show softly- lighted garden patio with its 75-foot-long, fan-shaped swimming pool, and (at right) a unique life-size camel named Mo-hammy, and the Arab camel driver which greet arriving guests.

TEEMING ACTIVITY of a busy Phoenix seems distant to guests who lounge in colorful, sunshiny Sahara garden patio, oblivious of street motor traffic shut off by strategic placement of hotel's wings. View at left, above, is through one of big lobby windows.


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STAR LIGHT CHANDELIERS glisten in the attractive lobby entrance to the fashionable Sahara Motor Hotel. Magazine, cigar and news stand is handy to lobby desk. Complete travel servce is another feature found in lobby. Pedestrian entrance is from First Street, at left. Out of picture, at right, are lobby entrances to Casbar cocktail loung, Caravan Room for dining, and Coffee House.

BRIGHT TENT-LIKE CANOPY and rich carpeting feature the Caravan Room at the Sahara, where diners look out over the spacious garden patio, across a broad tiled terrace for outdoor dining beside the pool. Already favorite spots for Phoenicians as well as Sahara guests, decor of the Caravan Room, Casbar Lounge and Coffee House combines the subdued mauves, pinks, charcoals and grays of the mountains and skies at evening.

A CORNER ot the spacious, comfortably-furnished Sahara lobby. This restful sitting room is just off the garden patio. Since the French influence predominated in Sahara desert history, this theme, together with modern furnishings, was used in the hotel's decor. Color scheme of lobby and loung incorporates the sands of the desert with the turquoise of the Southwestern skies. No nat-tural wood tones are used, and all metals are either in color or burnished silver.


Sahara's Opening Ceremonies Attract Crowd W There was no question about George Gobel playing to a "full house" in Phoenix. His show, highlighting official opening of the new Sahara Hotel, wasn't scheduled until after 1 p.m. that Sunday afternoon, but the audience began showing up before 10 a.m. By 11 o'clock the hotel was over-run, the patio crowded to capacity, and adjoining First Street was blocked off and filling with spectators, since a second show was promised on a specially-erected platform there. Thousands of Phoenicians and winter visitors saw, heard and laughed with Gobel and his television cast that day, jamming the patio and street, leaning from windows and balconies, watching from roof tops. And all, it seemed, departed with the feeling the show was well worth the effort and the wait.

IT WAS 'STANDING ROOM ONLY' in this alcove of the Sahara patio during opening ceremonies tor the public.

ON THE STREET outside the hotel this crowd waited to see the repeat presentation of the George Gobel program and Porter's style show.

PRETTY GIRL MODELS Wfl by bevy of models from I


rflows Motor Hotel Patio Into Adjoining Street

lara swimming pool tor capacity crowd in garden patio and on adjacent balconies and rooftops. Style show n Phoenix preceded rollicking merriment introducd by George Gobel and his TV cast.


Sparkling Entertainment Program Presented In Sunshiny Sahara Patio

All DECKED OUT in cowboy regalia, including western boots, Comedian George Gobel exchanges quips (above, left) on Sahara stage with portly John Scott Trotter. Then he does a bit of romancing (above, right), with petite Peggy King. Gobel also introduced Jeff Donneff, his TV wife, and Alice, the real Mrs. Gobel.

BRIGHT SATIN TURBANS, worn by dignitaries at Sahara inaugural, were donned by these Webb Company executives on hand for the ceremonies. From left: Tom Hetherington, company attorney; R. A. (Bob) Becker, secretary-treasurer, and J. R. Ashton, vice-president and Phoenix district manager.

AT PRESS PARTY preceding Sahara ceremonies, the state's beauty queen, Miss Arizona in the person of pretty Barbara Hilgenberg of Tucson, visits with (from left) 1. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president of the Del E. Webb Construction Co., Comedian Gobel, and Del E. Webb, construction firm president.

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TIME TO RE1AX. Sahara guests? Well, hardly. These are the working men who directed construction of the new Sahara Hotel for the Webb Company, and the job was all but complete when they found time to sit for this group photo. From left: Howard E. Boice, chief of operations at the Phoenix office; Jack Ford, operations department representative on the project; Fred McDowell, job superintendent; Milford T. Rigg, job office manager, and Kim Bannister, another operations man on the project.

Many Firms Shared Job Of Creating New Sahara

Directly involving hundreds of construction men and women engaged in almost two score different trades and representing more than 30 firms, building of the Sahara Motor Hotel

was accomplished in 131 working

days, considered an achievement of

consequence in view of some delay

at one stage occasioned by an indus

try-wide strike among materials sup

pliers.

Overseeing activities of the galaxy

of workmen was a veteran Webb Com

pany job superintendent, Fred Mc-1 Dowell. He had to get the project

started on only a portion of the site

then available, and before the first : guest could register he had to co-

. ordinate installations ranging from

i concrete and structural steel to

kitchen equipment and carpeting.

Serving as operations man to co

ordinate activities of construction

men, the architect and owners was

j Jack Ford of the Webb Company's

Phoenix office, and he was assisted by

Kim Bannister of the operation staff.

Job engineer was Russ Armstrong,

f and job office manager was Milford T.

Rigg-Overseeing the project was Howard

E. Boice. chief of operations at the

Phoenix office.

Subcontractors and suppliers (list

ed alphabetically and all Phoenix

firms unless otherwise identified I in

cluded: ACM E Materials Co., ready-mixed con

crete; Allied Steel Co., steel stairs, handrails; gates, balcony railing, metal canopies: Arizona Plumbing and Heating Co.. plumbing; Arizona Sash. Door and Glass Co.. aluminum sash, sliding doors and windows: D. M. Bradley & S. R Dysart, contractors. pavement, curbs, gutters and driveways; Building Specialties Co.. form accessaries: Climate Control Co., air conditioning for shops: Clinton Camnhell Contractor. Inc., swimming pool: Cannon & Watson Electric Co., electrical work; Ed Churchhill. masonry; W. R. Cluer

Millwork Co., millwork; Charles Court. caulking; Foveal, Inc., framing lumber; Foxwcrth-McCalla Lumber Co.. bathroom accessories; Goettl Bros. Metal Products,

'f laundry chutes: Harry D. Green & Sons, I painting; Frank Harmonson Co., heating, j Catty Neighbor: "Her bathroom f towels are monogrammed H E R S and

iTO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN." i An old philosopher has told us that

happiness is the pursuit of something,

not the catching of it. Wonder if he

ever chased the last bus on a rainy

night!

ventilating and air conditioning; Laing-Garrett Construction Specialties, floor covering; W. A. Perry Tile & Marble Co., ceramic tile; Phoenix Elevator Co., elevators; Soule Steel Co., reinforcing steel and mesh, steel forms; Southwestern Sash & Door Co., glass entrances and fixed glass in aluminum frames and trim; Standard Roofing & Supply Co.. roofing

and dampproofing; Michael Steele & As

sociates. Chicago, mirrors; Steffy Sales Co., toilet partitions; Sullivan Manufacturing Co.. plastic screens; A. & B. Trottier Co., lath and plaster; Universal Dry Wall Co.. wallboard; Valley Lumber Co., hardware and form plywood; Warren Sales Co., acoustical tile and suspension system; Williams Insulation Co., soundproofing and insulation, and J. H. Welsh & Son Contracting Co., sewer and manholes.

THE STORY behind this golf match is that Mike Robinson, managing director ot the Phoenix Sahara and the Flamingo Hotels chain, owns a jaunty cap which long ago caught the fancy of both Georqe Gobel and Del Webb. Mike finally posted the headgear as potential award to the winner in the "Robinson Cap" golf match between the pair. While 1. M. Stroud and Fred Porter look on (left, above), Gobel and Webb tussle over the cap after Webb won the first match on Paradise Valley Country Club links. But now the wily Robinson insists the "Robinson Cap" must be won three times for permanent possession.


Program At Sahara Draws Record Crowd


brought "name" members of his TV cast to Phoenix, including perky IVggv King and hefty John Scott Trotter, to participate in a two-hour show that was a crowd pleaser.

Builders and owners of the new Sahara not only brought their motor hotel into the downtown district, but thev used color boldly and lavishly to create some dazzling effects even for a hotel. Yet they still retained for their guests the handy motor parking spaces which have popularized motels, and they also have made it possible for a guest to all but avoid the expense of tipping if he wishes to handle his own luggage and park his own car.

Still, the owners have surrounded the Sahara with the aura of a fine hotel.

Thev furnished it comfortably. even luxuriously; provided bellhop and even meal service to rooms if desired: placed a television set in even room, offered 24-hour coffee shop and telephone switchboard service, the opportunity to employ a baby sitter at the lobby desk. They opened to the public as well as their own guests a dining room in dazzling color, a modern and attractive coffee shop, and a cocktail lounge ingeniously called the Casbar. featuring an unusual wall treatment in three dimensions which depicts a caravan of papier mache figures, beautifully jeweled and illuminated with special lighting effects.

The 200-room hostelry was designed by Matthew Trudelle. Phoenix architect, and built by the Webb Company for the Flamingo chain of motor hotels, which operates a Flamingo in Phoenix, others at Tucson. Yuma and Flagstaff, in Texas and Nevada, and will also operate the new Flamingo Santa Anita now rising at Arcadia. Calif.

While "Lonesome George" Gobel and Contractor Del Webb probably are the two best known of the Sahara's stockholders, the hotel's principal owners are the Webb construction firm and Managing Director Mike Robinson of the Flamingo chain and their associates. These included

Roy Drachman. Tucson realtor; 0. A.

Helsing. Phoenix: Mortimer M. Le

vin. Ezra F. Ressman. Marion Isbell

and Max Sherman, all of Chicago.

B/G EXCAVATION at Union Oil Center, into which late-January Los Angeles* rains poured a sizeable lake, long since has dried and this month was teeming with activity. Pile drivers are sinking thousands of tons of steel to bedrock to support the height-limit home office building ot Union Oil Company of California. Architects on the $20,000,000 project are Pereira and Luckman.

Radio Station KRUX Now Originates From New Sahara Hardly had it welcomed its first

guests before the new Sahara gained another distinction among Arizona motor hotels — it became "home" for a 24-hour-a-day radio station. K R U X . formerly of Glendale, Ariz.

Recently purchased by the Bartell Group, owners of independent radio stations in five other cities. K R U X immediately was launched on an expansion program to make it one of Arizona's leaders in the broadcasting

field. It became a 24-hour operation

March 1. featuring popular music interspersed by five-minute newscasts every half hour around the clock.

Executive offices, a recording studio, and facilities for remote broadcasts were installed in the hotel, and the station went on the air March 1 as "originating from the Sahara". though transmitter equipment remains at its former location in Glendale.

The Bartell Broadcasters. Inc.. of Milwaukee, are headed by David B. Bartell. chairman of the board, and John F. Box. Jr.. executive vice-president, who came to Phoenix to arrange for installation of K R U X headquarters in the Sahara.

The Bartell Group also operates a Madison. Wis., television station. W M T V . and radio stations W O K Y

in Milwaukee and W A P L in Apple-ton. Wis., as well as W A K E in Atlanta and K C B Q in San Diego. Daily "spot" announcements concerning the new Sahara are carried on all these stations.

NEW OWNERS ot Arizona's oreat independent radio station, KRUX, which now originates from Hotel Sahara in downtown Phoenix, chat with Gov. E. W. McFarland, center, at hostelry's public opening. They are David B. Bartell, right, chairman of the board of Bartell Broadcasters, Inc., of Milwaukee, Wis., and John F. Box, Jr., left, executive vice-president of the corporation which, with its acquisition of KRUX, now has radio and television operations in six cities.

March, 1956 THE WEBB SPINNER Page 1 1

Uptown Plaza Center Wins National Award

(Continued from Page 1) town Plaza, and to Roy Drachman. Tucson realtor and developer, who was the site planner.

The judges termed Uptown Plaza "well orgnaized" with "good grouping of store types." They added: "The basic plan is simple, effective and economic to build and will tend to bring the greatest pedestrian traffic past the 23 stores."

Ralph J. Johnson, director of the N A H B construction department and research institute, advised Webb Company officials that contest judges noted "wide regional variation, both in architectural design and use of land, reflected in entries from over the United States."

Judges were Richard M. Bennett of Loebl. Schlossman and Bennett. Chicago; Richard L. Nelson, president of the Real Estate Research Corp.. Chicago, and William A. Dean, land planner with Hill Homes, Inc., Rolling Meadows, 111.

Si*t&day<i Congratulations on the approach of another birthdav anniversary are extended by the Webb Spinner to these employees:

M. T. Rigg, Phoenix April 10

Rosa Kort, Phoenix April 13

P. D. Clouthier, San Diego....April 14

Bobbie Spaulding, Phoenix..April 17

John P. Hayden, Phoenix April 21

Kara Newell, Phoenix April 23 o

This Could Have Caused Juggling Of Webb Co. Travel Itineraries First celebrity to occupy "Celebrity

Penthouse" at the new Sahara Motor Hotel was curvacious Marilyn Monroe of the films, who arrived in Phoenix on March 13 for filming or rodeo and other scenes for "Bus Stop", a 20th Century-Fox production.

The film star was greeted by about 2,000 welcomers on her arrival at Sky Harbor Airport, and others were waiting at the hotel. The fourth-floor "Celebrity Penthouse" is the suite maintained by the Webb Company and generally occupied by Del Webb, company president, or other company officials visiting Phoenix.

A W A R D OF MERIT presented to the Del E. Webb Construction Co. and its architect and land planner associates for the new Uptown Plaza Shopping Center at Phoenix is discussed by (from left, above) H. H. Green, architect for the center; L. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president of the Webb Company, and Roy P. Drachman, Tucson realtor and land planner on the project. The award, pictured below, came in national competition conducted by the National Association of Home Builders.

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The. National Association of Home ftuilders of the United States'

presents

AWARD OF MERIT IN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT

to

for

In recognition of outstanding character and conformance with the highest standards of subdivision practice in.

land planning and architectural design.

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THE WEBB SPINNER March, 195<


DEL E.WEBB

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T. F. Hetherington, Resident Counsel A. K. Stewart, Jr. J. W. Colachis

PHOENIX OFFICE


H. E. Boice, Chief of Operations •Kim Bannister F. S. Murray A. C. Jacobson, Sr. E. W. Flint T. E. Breen O. F.Childress J. W. Meeker R. L. Reeves

J. W. Ford Bobby Spaulding Lorraine Greager Alice Murdoch Evelyn Martin F. P. Kuentz T. L. Rittenhouse H. G. Winston

W. J. Miller, Business Manager P. G. Marks J. L. Morton J. P. McLain Rosa M. Kort G. G. Grantham Rose Romano D. L. Kauffman Amy Jo Hafford

Kara C. Newell Pearl S. Richardson Gsraldine Hampton T. P. Mulkern L. O. Hoeft Gladys Sanders Mary P. Moss Mary Jane Spandau

LOS ANGELES OFFICE 5101 San Fernando Road W., Los Angeles 39, California, Phone CHapman 5-2616

R. H. Johnson, Vice President and District Manager T. Davies, Chief of Operations D E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager H. Smith, Jr. Ralph Wanless

G. A. Anderson Martha Little Enola Owens F. O. Langell M. F. Webb George Shaw

G3rald Harris Alice Stears Sallie Tucker Freda McDonald






ARCADIA, CALIF., OFFICE 130 West Huntington Drive Arcadia, Calif. Phone DOuglas 7-3520 W. A. Warriner, Mgr. of Job Operations D. J. Kelly, Job Superintendent J. S. Aubin, Job Office Manager

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE Fifth & Boylston Sts. Los Angeles, Calif., Phone MAdison 6-2211 J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer W. R. Foeht, Job Office Manager W. C. Edmundson, Job Accountant M. M. DeConinck E. B. York G. A. Murray, Jr. Lillian Whitaker


19th Ave. and Thomas Rd. Phoenix. Arizona Tom Gilbreath, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF., OFFICE

9973 Santa Monica Blvd. Beverly Hills, Calif. Phone BRadshaw 2-8153 M. D. Stevens, Job Superintendent Cecil Drinkward, Job Engineer C. F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager Mary Somerfeld F. W. Danielson

C. H. Dean


4330 Moraga St. P. O. Box 9396 San Diego 9, Calif. Phone BRoadway 3-6234



13th Ave. & Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone CRestwood 4-5828 Tom Gilbreath, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager A. S. Roof J. P. Hayden

C. F. Welch

Prominent Arizonans Are Shown Webb-Built Town Of San Manuel Prominent Arizonans from all

walks of life were among about 150 persons who were guests Feb. 24 of Magma and San Manuel Copper Corp. officials in a tour of the new $130,-000,000 San Manuel mine, mill and smelter facilities, and townsite in Southeastern Arizona.

The interesting tour was conducted by Wesley P. Goss, president and gen

eral manager of Magma and San Manuel copper firms. Also on hand were A. J. McNab, board chairman; Arthur Notman, a director, and Walter P. Schmid. treasurer and director, all of New York City. John F. Buchanan, assistant general manager of operations for the two copper firms, and Frank H. Buchella, general manager of San Manuel Copper, joined

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EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Del E. Webb I. C. Jacobson R. A. Becker W. J. Miller



H. G. Winston, Phoenix A. C (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix





Industrial Editors

TEN YEAR MAN. That fellow with the cheerful smile and the hearty greeting is Bernis Dobbs, one 6f the willingesf workers at the Phoenix headquarters of the _ Webb Company, who observed his 10th anniversary on the job March 23. He came to the firm as an ex-sergeant from Uncle Sam's army medical corps after SVi years service, including 17 months in the South Pacific. Today he helps service and maintain Webb Company rolling stock, and when off duty he's busy improving the home he maintains for his v/ife, Evelyn, and a young daughter.

the touring groups. All were fetec at a luncheon and cocktail party «

San Manuel. The San Manuel townsite, consist

ing of 1,000 dwellings and commer cial center, was built in 1953-54 b; the Del E. Webb Construction Co and Aldon Construction Co. It wa: acquired by Magma Copper a yeai

ago.

* Vol. 10, No. 4 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, APRIL, 1956 Twelve Pages

Work Begins On $15,000,000 Lumber Plant The largest and most modern lum-

i ber manufacturing facility in Cali-3 fornia will be built by the Del E. W e b b Construction Co. for Diamond Match

: Company on the outskirts of Red Bluff, about 160 miles north of Sacra-

, mento in the northern section of the -. state.

First phase of project will cost

j 000,000. The completely-integrated forest

products manufacturing plant, first such development in California, is

I being located on a 400-acre site on fl the southern edge of Red Bluff, and

W e b b Company m e n already are well along with site clearing and grading.

the big industrial estimated $15,-

By mid-April they had moved an estimated 40,000 yards of earth, and first concrete was poured April 16 for footings for the mill office, which when completed will serve as Wehh Company construction headquarters until the plant is completed. Robert G. Fairburn, Diamond

Match president, said that in addition to facilities for processing lumber, including a sawmill, drying kilns and a planing mill, the new installation is being designed to include a molded pulp plant which will convert lumber and wood residuals into valuable fiber products.

Webb Company Ready To Start Project Of 1,150 Homes At Cedar Rapids, la.

W e b b Company crews moved into Cedar Rapids, Iowa, this month to begin building 500 new homes in a project calling for ultimate construction of 1,150 dwellings costing about $13,000,000.

And Cedar Rapids sponsors said the project is closely related to "red hot prospects for a big, new but still-unannounced industrial expansion."

A joint venture of the Del E. W e b b Construction Co., under direction of its Phoenix office, and H. M . Becker and Associates of Cedar Rapids, the project is to provide housing for rapid industrial growth and expansion considered necessary in the Iowa city.

The site is a 268-acre area beyond the west city limits, already earmarked for annexation by Cedar Rapids municipal officials. It is today gently-rolling farmland, w i t h o u t streets or utilities, but the location was selected because it is strategically situated with respect to major traffic routes, industrial expansion and a new school.

W e b b C o m p a n y construction m e n were on the jobsite at mid-month, ready to begin the project.


Construction was underway this month on Arizona's first skyscraper apartment structure, the new 12-story, 61-apartment Phoenix Towers being built on North Central Avenue in Phoenix by the W e b b Company.

The Towers will rise on 10 acres of the former Dwight B. Heard estate, a palm-bordered site at Monte Vista Road on the Arizona capital city's principal thoroughfare, Central Avenue. Towering above all other buildings in the area, it will overlook the entire city and valley from its location about l1/^ miles north of the heart of downtown Phoenix.


Negotiations for the project were handled by Pres. Del E. W e b b , Executive Vice-Pres. L. C. Jacobson, and Vice-Pres. J. R.» Ashton. Overseeing construction are Mr. Ashton and Howard E. Boice, chief of operations at Phoenix, and working with them is Fred P. Kuentz, manager of job operations and liaison m a n between the constructors and Diamond Match. Stan Bateman is job superintendent, Chuck Powers is office engineer and M . T. Rigg office manager.

Southwestern Engineering Company of Los Angeles is handling design and engineering for the W e b b Company, with R. V. Gunther, Los Angeles, vice-president of Southwest-ern's industrial division, directing the design, and C. E. Bouis, Los Angeles, serving as project engineer.

President Fairhurn announced that the new plant will initially employ approximately 500 persons, and will provide the little community of Red Bluff, with its population of 5,500, a new industrial payroll in the neighhorhood of $2,500,000 annually. Earl J. Bechard of Chico, Calif.,

general manager of Diamond's California lumber division, is project coordinator for the new plant. Other Diamond Match officials w ho will be actively overseeing construction in-


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Construction Underway On Diamond Match Plant In Northern California

(Continued from Page 1) elude John Penn of Palmer, Mass., molded pulp division coordinator, and Tom Shelton of Chico, lumber division coordinator.

Diamond Match is the leading U. S. producer of molded pulp products. Its R e d Bluff plant will produce such items as egg cartons, disposable plates for home, industrial and institutional use, pie and cake plates for bakeries, and Diam o n d ' s complete line of "Foodtainers" — molded pulp containers used for pre-packaging meats and other foods sold in self-service markets across the nation. The Red Bluff location is strategic

ally situated close to the Diamond Match Central Valley timberlands totaling 220,000 acres.

The new plant has been designed with an initial capacity to process some 85 million board feet of timber annually. The molded pulp plant, which will manufacture products from mechanically-produced ground-wood, will have an initial rated capacity of 30,000 tons a year.

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Red Bluff Daily News Covers 'Big Story' In Great Detail

The enterprising Red Bluff Daily News devoted its entire front page and considerable space inside its eight-page newspaper to a comprehensive coverage of the new Diamond Match industrial development on the day the project was announced by Pres. Robert G. Fairburn in New

York. Among the many facets of the

story covered in detail by the Daily News, besides plans for the integrated forest products plant, were plans of city planners for expansion of housing and other facilities,how home builders were rushing to erect housing, enthusiastic reactions of the mayor and president of the chamber of commerce, problems confronting Red Bluff in providing new schools and service facilities, opportunities for employment of a large construction force, and some brief background on Webb Company building projects.

Marion S. Walker is publisher, Nelson Wilson is managing editor and Opal M. Tucker business manager of the Red Bluff daily.

I DIRECTS CONSTRUCT/ON. Stan

Bateman, job superintendent tor the Webb Company on the multi-million dollar Pabco Products manufacturing plant in New Jersey and the huge guided missile installation built for Howard Hughes at Tucson, now is directing construction of the new Diamond Match facilities in Northern California.

Philosophical is what you find yourself having to be about what you don't like that you can't change.

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

When you get in hot water, be nonchalant—take a bath.

A danger sign can't talk, but it's not as dumb as the guy who pays no attention to it.

If we moderns are so smart, why don't we have square plates so we could take a fork and chase peas into a corner?

A gentleman is a man who holds the door open for the wife while she carries in a load of groceries.

To be the man of the hour, first learn to make every minute count.

A timely slogan: Work and save, young man, and some day you'll have enough to divide with those who don't.

Nature seems determined to make us work; the less hair we have to comb, the more face we have to wash.

Red Bluff Welcomes Announcement Of New Paper Products Plant Announcement of the new Diamond Match plant had long been expected in Red Bluff, but it created a tremendous surge of excitement in the community of 5,500 persons and brought predictions of a population of 10,000 to 20,000 within the next four or five years.

The announcement also signaled the immediate start of a construction race among subdividers who had been standing by with plans for some 800 new homes and at least two shopping centers.

City officials, welcoming the new plant, pointed out, however, that it confronts them with new problems of providing adequate school facilities, streets, water supplies, policing and other services for the expected influx of workmen and their families, to be followed by permanent residents who will work in the Diamond Match facility and reside in the Red Bluff area.

Mayor Robert Grootveld said city officials are planning to care for approximately 1,500 to 2,000 new residents in the very near future, on the basis of four of five persons moving in for each construction worker.

School Supt. William Matteer said more elementary schools will be needed, and the elementary school district already is bonded to its legal limit. This probably will make half-day sessions necessary, he added.

Red Bluff anticipates many new "service" businesses as a result of the anticipated population growth, and other industrial plants reportedly are interested in following the lead of Diamond Match.

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Sad Tidings Webb Company folks lost a valued

friend and associate with the death at Phoenix on March 24 of Otho E. Smith, 68, well-known certified public accountant. He passed away in St. Joseph's' Hospital after an extended illness. Funeral services were held March 26 in St. Mary's Church and he was buried in St. Francis Cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Mary; a daughter, Mrs. Helen Reitherman,

and a grandchild, all of Phoenix.


New Lumber Plant To More Completely Utilize Forest Resources Material Otherwise Burned

1 Or Wasted To Be Converted To Valuable Pulp Products

More complete utilization of forest resources, and protection of Diamond Match Company's conservation policy of cutting no more timber than it grows each year are the goals of its new multi-million dollar development program being undertaken by the Webb Company at Red Bluff, Calif., according to Pres. Robert G. Fair-burn. "Red Bluff operations will make

a valuable contribution to the timber economy of California, which ranks second only to Oregon in the value

. of products derived from its timber resources," said President Fairburn.

"By utilizing to the fullest extent . possible the wood residuals and waste which today are either burned or otherwise disposed of, this new plant will furnish to our expanding economy a variety of useful products, and at the same time contribute to the preservation of one of our nation's most valuable natural resources.

"For many years, timber companies in the northwest have been far ahead of California companies in 'whole log' utilization. Using present lumber processes only," Mr. Fair-burn explained, "Diamond is able to utilize only 40 to 45 per cent of logs delivered to its California mills. At this integrated plant, we should expect to double this output through a program of 'whole log' usage, half of which can be devoted to the production of lumber and lumber products, and half for conversion into fiber products."

Gen. Mgr. Earl Bechard of Diamond's California lumber division says his firm "long has been interested in the more complete utilization of its timber resources. Establishment of an integrated forest products plant, to convert wood which is otherwise burned or wasted into valuable molded pulp products, he declared, has hinged upon the elimination of any possible effluent disposal problem.

"The methods developed by Diamond's staff of scientists and engineers to achieve full-log utilization, include the use of an effluent treat-

FIELD PARLEY. Some of the top officials of Diamond Match Company discuss in the field details connected with construction of their new Northern California integrated forest product plant. They are (from left) Earl J. Bechard, general manager ot Diamond's Calitonia lumber division; J. W. Cox, vice-president ot Diamond Match; E. C. Olson, consultant of Diamond Match, and Robert G. Fairburn, indicating map, president of Diamond Match. ,

Fish Hatchery? Farm? The/11 Be A Part Of New Forest Product Plant At Red Bluff

It sounds a bit incongruous, but Diamond Match is going to operate a dual farm and fish hatchery in connection with its new multi-million dollar integrated forest product plant at Red Bluff, Calif.

But it's all intended to establish definitely that the effluent to be released by the new plant will not be injurious to either farms or such river sports as fishing.

Water released from the molded paper plant will pass through an effluent treatment plant encompassing the very newest water purification

ment plant which encompasses the very latest in design and engineering principles of water purification systems. This controlled treatment plant, plus the use of secondary settling


systems. Then this water will be used to supply one-half of the fish hatchery and one-half of the small farm plot. Water from the Sacramento river will serve the other half of the fish hatchery and irrigate the other half of the farm.

"When we can show that fish living and thriving in the water which has been purified before leaving the plant, and doing just as well or better than fish living in the river water, I believe people will realize that Diamond Match has their interests at heart," said one company official.

"The same will be true of the farm plots, because if we can show fruits and vegetables growing and thriving in both kinds of water, I don't believe there will be any reason for objections to our plant."


Red Bluff Job Busies These Webb Co. Folks

NEGOTIATIONS which led to selection of the Del E. Webb Construction Co. to build the multi-million dollar Diamond Match facility at Red Bluff, Calif., were handled by company executives pictured (at right) studying plans tor the plant. They are Pres. Del E. Webb, right foreground; Executive Vice-Pres. L. C. Jacobson, just behind Mr. Webb, and Vice-Pres. J. R. Ashton, at left. Behind Mr. Ashton sits R. A. Becker, company secretary, and standing in background is H. E. Boice, chief of operations at Phoenix.

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INSPECTING an architectural rendering of the Diamond Match plant, Fred P. Kuentz, left, manager of job operations, discusses the construction program with Howard Boice, Phoenix chief of operations. Kuentz, who worked on the Pabco Products plant in New Jersey, the Hughes guided missile facility at Tucson, and the Travis Air Force Base project, will make his headquarters at Red Bluff and serve as liaison between construction and engineering firms and Diamond Match officials.

O N THE JOBSITE, sheep were grazing peacefully (in background) when these Webb Company men arrived. From left, Milford T. Rigg, job office manager; C. T. Powers, office engineer; Stan Bateman, job superintendent, and H. G. Winston, chief accountant who was visiting from the Phoenix office.


Site On Which New Plant For Diamond Match Will Rise

AIR VIEW shows site of new Diamond Match industrial plant to be built by the Webb Company on outskirts of Red Bluff, Calif. Clearing and grading work was underway when this photo was made early this month. Project is adjacent to Sacramento River, edge of which shows at upper left. Red Bank Creek extends across upper half of photo. U. S. Highway 99W can be seen in upper right corner.

Material Otherwise Burned ^0lt/id&U4> This Was a Blitz!

Or Wasted TO Be Converted <**pv Johnny Meeker's six-year-old _ „ . . . _ . _ . , „. . . daughter, Susie, got the measles; then TO Valuable Pulp Products Sincere congratulations are ex- hig ^ Dorothy; then his son,

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River as clear and pure as that ob- Y lncluue- kept right on directing home-building tained by any municipality on the L. 0. Hoeft, Phoenix May 15 activities for the company's housing stream " department. „ ' , , _.„ Del E. Webb, Phoenix....May 17 C^cav'e lium. It I In I Mr. Bechard also reported that Bill tasey S Living It Up!

Hyman, a top sawmill consultant, Stan Bateman, Red Bluff May 17 Kara (Casey) Newell, who sur-working in coordination with the u „ „ . D, ., „„ prised the accounting department per-Webb Company and Southwestern H' K Bo,ce' ™ o e n i x M a Y 2 0 sonnel and all her other Webb Corn-Engineering, will handle, design of J. R. Ashton, Phoenix. ..May 27 PanY friends recently with a boyish-the lumber manufacturing division. n T KT 11 S type l50'D' n O W has taken u p "goofey"

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Those people who claim that the Arcadia, Lalit May 16 C0Urses; shot a respectable 73 one country is ruined are trying mighty Enola Owens, evening recently on the 18-hole hard to get control of the wreck. Los Angeles May 29 Green Gables layout.


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H O W RED BLUFF PLANT WILL LOOK when it is completed by the Webb Company and occupied by Diamond /Match is shown in this architectural drawing by Fred Beckmann of Southwestern Engineering Company. Units of the integrated forest product plant, first of its kind in California, include (1) green sorter and rough stor-

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age building, (2) dry kilns, (3) cooling shed, (4) rough storage and dry sorter, (5) rough dry storage, (6) planing mill, (7) finish storage and shipping, (8) pulp mill, (9) molded pulp plant, (10) chipper plant, boiler plant, refuse burner, (11) maintenance shops, (12) fuel storage and (13) company offices.


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J.W.Ford T. O. Gilbreath L.D.Sanders J. S. Aubin Construction men on the W e b b Company's Cedar Rapids housing job.

Webb Company Ready To Start Project Of 1,150 Homes At Cedar Rapids, la.

R. L. Reeves


Howard E. Boice, chief of operations at Phoenix, will oversee con

struction, and T. E. Breen, manager of housing at the Phoenix office, will direct sales, advertising and financing as sales manager, assisted by Ralph L. Reeves, who will be on the site. Jack Ford will be manager

of job operations on the project, Tom Gilbreath will be job superintendent, Dave Sanders serves as job engineer and Joe Aubin as job office manager. Ford, Sanders, Reeves, and Aubin were among Webb Company men on the San Manuel project, where a complete, model mining community of 1,000 homes was built in Southeastern Arizona.

Cedar Rapids homes will be of conventional frame construction, of three basic plans, and containing up to 1,100 square feet of living area. All will be three bedrooms, one plan with two baths and a family room, another with two baths, and another with one bath plus roughed-in plumbing for a second bathroom.

Charles and Arthur Schreiber of Phoenix are project architects.

An estimated investment of more than $6,000,000 is involved in construction of the first 500 units.

A three-acre park-playground will be a part of the project, provided by the developers for home owners. Residents will have city water and sewer

service. Annexation is expected by next Jan. 1.

Mr. Becker of H. M. Becker and Associates of Cedar Rapids credited Robert Caldwell, executive vice-president of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce, with playing a key role in the effort to attract new industry, and to satisfy housing needs for it.

Father Is Improved Rose Romano, secretary to the

business manager at Phoenix headquarters, recently was called to Chicago by the serious illness of her father, Dominick Romano. But his condition improved so steadily after her arrival that she soon was back at her Phoenix job, and in mid-April Mr. Romano's health was reported considerably better.

Most of the big jobs are held by men who have swell-proof heads.

If you think co-operation is not necessary, try running your car with only three wheels.

The fellow who rocks the boat is never the fellow at the oars.

The reason that most people like dogs may be that a dog wags his tail instead of his tongue.

A wise husband will buy his wife such fine china that she won't trust him to wash the dishes.

Cedar Rapids Booms, Huge Gains Seen In Jobs And Population

By Russ Wiley (Cedar Rapids Gazette Staff Writer)

Cedar Rapids in five years:

Possibly 10,000 new jobs . . . Pop-ulation of perhaps 100,000 . . . Utilities expanded into vital areas that promise rapid development ... A potential of 12 more square miles to the city's boundaries . . . N e w houses galore.

The men who will build and equip a good share of these houses have been given a first-hand report on how the city's anticipation stacks up at the moment.

More than 100 members of the Cedar Rapids H o m e Builders Association had the city's future possibilities spelled out for them by the city council and other city officials at a dinner meeting at Elmcrest Country Club.

"What will Cedar Rapids be like five years from n o w ? " That question brought these answers:

City Atty. C. W . Garberson repeated a statement from other city officials that "three blue chip industries are concerned with the prospect of locating on or near the Milwaukee Land Company property ..."

If the plans materialize, "they would produce possibly 10,000 new jobs in the next three years," and they also would call for many more persons to service them.

"So conservatively," said Garberson, "we can count on a population growth of 30,000 to 50,000 from these three developments alone. Bear in mind that this is only a potential, but we can say that the planning for these developments is far beyond the dream stage."

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Proud? You Bet He Is! Cradle topic of the month is the

arrival March 20 of a new daughter for L. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president and general manager of the company, and Mrs. Jacobson. Jake, already a proud granddaddy, is almost popping his buttons over Christine, who weighed seven pounds, 11 ounces when she bowed into the world at St. Joseph's Hospital.



Designed by Ralph C. Harris, Chicago architect, the Towers project offers cooperative apartments which are sold as are homes. Owners are offered a selection of floor plans which include five and S^-room apartments with two bedrooms, and one basic type of deluxe three-bedroom unit.

Adjacent to the apartments structure will be a large swimming pool, and other recreational features.

Sponsors of the luxury "downtown homes" structure, besides Pres. Del Webb of the Webb Company, are three of his close friends: Ralph W . Applegate of Chicago and Phoenix, proprietor of White Rock Bottling Co. of Arizona; J. Arthur Friedlund, Chicago attorney and secretary of the New York Yankees, and Arnold M. Johnson of Chicago and Kansas City, owner of the Kansas City Athletics of the American League, vice-chairman of the board of Automatic Canteen Co. of America, and holder of real estate properties throughout the East.

O N PHOENIX TOWERS SITE, Job Supt. Fred McDowell, right, and R. T. White, job office manager, confer as construction of luxury apartments begins. Superintendent McDowell recently completed the Sahara Hotel project in Phoenix.

PLANS for 12-story apartments structure are scanned by Henry Fuller, second from left, real estate editor of The Arizona Republic at Phoen.x. With him are, from left: H. E. Boice, chief ot operations for the Webb Company at Phoenix; Kim Bannister, manager of operations on the Towers project, and A. T. Jones, heavy machinery operator.

ARCHITECT'S SKETCH of the Phoenix Towers apartments, which soon will be rising on a North Central Avenue site in Arizona's capital city. The structure will have 61 cooperatively-owned apartments and will be completed in the summer of 1957. Four radiating towers will be joined centrally for elevator and hall service.


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SAHARA HOTEL in P'hoenix, built and partly owned by the Webb Company, was attracting some unusual attention and some rather distinguished guests this month for a motor hotel, albeit a downtown hostelry. Pictured at top are cover pages of Concrete Masonry Review, official publication of the Concrete Masonry Association, which devoted three full inside pages to photos and a story of the hotel, and just above is the cover of Arizona Builder and Contractor magazine. Meanwhile, Radio Station KRUX, a 24-hour music and news station with its executive offices now ensconsced in the Sa-

Several advancements in personnel at Phoenix headquarters of the Del E. Webb Construction Co. have been announced by L. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president and general manager.

W. J. (Jim) Miller, business manager, while retaining that post, has been named assistant to the executive vice-president, and W. A. (Bill) Warriner, a former manager of job operations in the field, has been named assistant business manager.

Thomas F. Hetherington, attorney-at-law, chief counsel for the Webb Company several years, has been advanced to head of the firm's legal and investment department.

Mr. Miller, who joined Webb Company personnel on its Fort Huachuca project in 1941, was transferred to the Phoenix office staff after World War II as assistant chief accountant,advanced subsequently to chief accountant, and then in 1949 was named business manager. A native of St. Louis, Mo., he has been an Arizonan since 1940 and resides with his wife, Nellie, and two daughters at 934 West Campus Drive.

Mr. Warriner, a native of Illinois, spent most of his life in Arizona

If looking at the higher-ups makes you discontented, look down occasionally at those less fortunate than yourself.

hara, was "coming to yo» from the fabulous Sahara Motor Hotel in downtown Phoenix," and the Sahara register already contained such names of widely known guests as Sen. Estes Kefauver, in Phoenix pursuing support for the Democratic presidential nomination; Marilyn Monroe, in the Arizona capital city to film scenes for "Bus Stop"; Leon Henderson, former OPA administrator; George Axelrod, author of the hit play. Seven Year Itch," and a host of others, such as a group of financial giants who are directors ot the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco and gathered at the Sahara for their spring meeting.

until after he joined Webb personnel in 1940 on the Fort Huachuca project as assistant purchasing agent. He worked for the Webb Company on Luke, Williams and man Air projects,

W. A. Warriner spent part of his World War II air corps service at Luke before joining personnel at Webb's Phoenix office. The past eight years he has been in the field, serving initially as job office manager on large hospital projects in Denver and St. Louis, and on military construction at Amarillo, Tex., Air Force Base and at Fort Ord, near Monterrey, Calif.

For a year Mr. Warriner was manager for the Webb Company and unofficial "mayor" of the town of San Manuel, then returned to construction work as manager of job operations in charge of building motor hotels in El Paso and San Antonio, Tex., and at Arcadia, Calif.

Educated in Phoenix schools and a graduate of Phoenix Union High School, Bill Warriner is the son of W . A. Warriner, Jr., 1821 North 10th Street, and resides with his wife, Donna, at 2321 West Flower Street.

Mr. Hetherington, a native of San Antonio and a former Los Angeles

attorney, became full-time legal counsel for the W e b b firm in 1952 and now heads the legal and investment department with a staff of five.

He attended elementary and high school in San Antonio, studied engineering two years at Texas A. & M., was an air force first lieutenant and fighter pilot in the European theater from 1941 to 1944, obtained his B.A. degree from University of Texas, and then was graduated from the Yale University School of Law. He resides with his wife, Nell, and two daughters at 225 West Flyn Lane.

T. F. Hetherington

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Study Webb Co. Construction A team of Japanese building industry leaders, visiting in the V. S. six weeks under auspices of the International Co-Operation Administration to study construction methods and trends, looked over the Phoenix headquarters of the Del E. Webb Construction Co. early this month and spent several hours conferring with company executives. Objective of their tour is to adapt American experience and ideas to Japanese conditions in order to step up construction there.

They inquired about coordination in planning and during construction among architects, engineers, builders and subcontractors; materials used and materials handling; financing of construction, and general functions of governmental authorities on local, state and national levels.

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VISITING JAPANESE BUILDERS pose with Webb Company executives for photographs by one of their party in front of Phoenix headquarters of the construction firm.

SEARCHING QUESTIONS came from the Japanese builders, all top executives of the 13 firms they represented, in this conference with Pres. Del Webb and other company officials. They inquired into operations and methods used in Webb Company building, and the scope of the firm's construction over the nation. Pictured standing in background, from left, are: Gilbert E. Olson, former building supply firm executive and Phoenix host to the Japanese group; L. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president, and W. J. Miller, business manager of the Webb Company; Ivan Johnson, Phoenix, another of the local hosts; H. E. Boice, Webb Company operations chief at Phoenix, and Leslie A. White, Washington, D.C, of the International Cooperation Administration, who directed the U. S. tour. Mr. Olson previously had served as a consultant in Europe and Latin America'for the International Cooperation Administration.



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Del E. W e b b , President L. C Jacobson, Executive Vice President and General Manager

R. A. Becker, Secretary W . J. Miller, Business Manager

R. G. Kenson, Assistant to the President


T. F. Hetherington, Resident Counsel A. K. Stewart, Jr. J. W . Colachis

Grace Harter Arlen Miller

P H O E N I X OFFICE

302 South 23rd Avenue, P. O. Box 4066, Phoenix, Arizona, Phone Alpine 8-7441 J. R. Ashton, Vice President and District Manager

H. E. Boice, Chief of Operations Kim Bannister F. S. Murray A, C. Jacobson, Sr, E. W . Flint T. E. Breen O. F.Childress T. L. Rittenhouse

J. W . Ford Bobby Spaulding Lorraine Greager Alice Murdoch Evelyn Martin Josephine T a m m

W . A. Warriner, Assistant Business Manager H. G. Winston P. G. Marks J. L. Morton J. P. McLain Rosa M. Kort G. G. Grantham Rose Romano D. L. Kauffman A m y Jo Hafford

Kara C. Newell Pearl S. Richardson Geraldine Hampton T. P. Mulkern L. O. Hoeft Gladys Sanders Mary P. Moss Mary Jane Spandau

LOS A N G E L E S OFFICE


E. T. Davies, Chief of Operations D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager E. H. Smith, Jr. Ralph Wanless Enola O w e n s Gerald Harris G. A. Anderson Martha Little F. O. Langell Alice Stears Cecil Drinkward F. W . Danielson M . F . W e b b Sallie Tucker C. H. Dean Mary Somerfeld George Shaw Freda McDonald

PHOENIX, ARIZ , OFFICE

2201 North Central Ave. Phoenix, Arizona

Kim Bannister, Mgr. of Job Operations F. L McDowell, Job Superintendent R. T. White, Job Office Manager

TUCSON, ARIZONA, OFFICE

P. O. Box 7245, South Tucson Station Tucson, Arizona Phone 3-4002


CEDAR RAPIDS, IA„ OFFICE

Cedar Rapids, la. J. W . Ford, Mgr. of Job Operations T. O. Gilbreath, Job Superintendent L. D Sanders, Job Engineer J. S. Aubin, Job Office Manager R. L. Reeves

ARCADIA, CALIF., OFFICE

130 West Huntington Drive Arcadia, Calif. Phone DOuglas 7-3520

Ralph G. Wanless, Mgr, of Job Operations D. J. Kelly, Job Superintendent C. F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE

Fifth & Boylston Sts. Los Angeles, Calif., Phone MAdison 6-221 1

J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer W . R. Foeht, Job Office Manager W . C. Edmundson, Job Accountant M. M. DeConinck E. B. York G. A. Murray, Jr. Lillian Whitaker


19th Ave. and Thomas Rd. Phoenix, Arizona

J W Meeker, Mgr. of Job Operations C. L. Edwards, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

RED BLUFF, CALIF, OFFICE

Highway 9 9 W Red Bluff, Calif. Phone 1254

F. P. Kuentz, Mgr of Job Operations Stan Bateman, Job Superintendent M T. Rigg, Job Office Manager G. J. Kennedy, Job Accountant C. T. Powers

S A N DIEGO, CALIF., OFFICE




13th Ave. & Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone CRestwood 4-5828

J. W . Meeker, Mgr. of Job Operations C. L. Edwards, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager J. P. Hayden

The man who saves money nowadays isn't a miser—he's a wizard.

An old philosopher has told us that happiness is the pursuit of something, not the catching of it. Wonder if he ever chased the last bus on a rainy night!

A local clergyman, upon hearing that liberalism was creeping into the churches, remarked, "If that is true, I hope it will soon strike the contribution box."

The trouble with many people in trying times is that they stop trying.

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n the interests of the personnel of its various projects and branch offices

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EDITORIAL COMMITTEE

A m y Jo Hafford

EDITOR Jerry McLain


A. C (Pop) Jacobson, Phoenix John Morton, Phoenix



Member Society of Associated

Industrial Editors and

International Council of Industrial Editors

L. C. Jacobson W.J.Miller

REMEMBER Audrey Reiss, our former accounting department employee who turned globe trotter? She's due back in Dallas, Tex., this month, but the latest "overseas" report on her travels came from the Mediterranean. She's pictured with an Arab guide en route to the Pyramids, and still was scheduled to visit a number of other Mediterranean countries. She wrote: "I know your Beverly Hilton must be a dream, but so is the ultramodern Istanbul Hilton. It was a welcome sight after 'viewing' and 'hearing' so much ancient history for a month."

The high cost of living doesn't seem to have any affect on its popularity.

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you, if you knew how seldom they do.

Vol. 10, No. 5 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, MAY, 1956 8 Pages

Hughes To Build Huge Florida Plane Plant Del Webb Reveals Start Of Design, Engineering Work Industrialist Howard Hughes of Los Angeles plans to build a huge Florida plant for the design, development and manufacture of airplanes, Contractor Del E. Webb announced recently at a news conference in the Tallahassee office of Florida Gov. LeRoy Collins.

While no cost figures were given. Governor Collins, a close friend of Mr. Webb, expanded the announcement by saying the new plant would become his state's largest single industrial development.

W e b b said a §ite for the plant hasn't been selected, but he gave some idea of the magnitude of the project when he said Hughes is looking for a location of up to 30,000 acres. H e emphasized that Hughes' operations in the Culver City, Calif., area provide employment for 15,000 to 16,000 persons and added: " M r . Hughes does not go into things in a small way. This operation will have quite a magnitude, else he would not be coming

to Florida."

Subsequently, in Los Angeles, Mr. Webb announced that the firm of Welton Becket and Associates, winner of 23 national awards for architecture and design, has been named as architect for the Florida project.

"Robert Fleming, our project manager," said Mr. Webb, "has been in Florida with his engineers for more than three months making a study of proposed sites for Mr. Hughes' aircraft plant." He also said engineers for both the Becket and Webb firms


WITH A CLOSE FRIEND, Florida Gov. LeRoy Collins, (left), Contractor Del Webb is pictured on arrival at Miami, Fla., airport tor visit during which he revealed that Howard Hughes plans an airplane-manufacturing plant and a modern medical institute for Florida. Webb Company men and members of the staff of Welton Becket, Los Angeles architect, already are at work on design and engineering.

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Flamingo Hotel System Stockholders Scan Business Future

WHAT LIES AHEAD in the way of business for motor hotels ? A pretty rosy future, in the opinion of these stockholders in the Flamingo Hotels system, who met at their headquarters in the Sahara Hotel at Phoenix this month to map future business plans. Pictured, clockwise, from left, are: Mortimer M. Levin, Chicago attorney; Roy P. Drachman, Tucson realtor; Max Sherman, Chicago produce man; Ezra F. Ressman, Chicago attorney; Marion W. Isbell, Chicago restaurant man; Mike Robinson, Phoenix, managing director of the Flamingo chain; O. A. (Bill) Helsing, Phoenix restaurant man, and three executives from the Phoenix offices of the Webb Company: L. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president and general manager; Tom Hetherington, legal and investment department chief, and W. J. (Jim) Miller, business manager.

Frightening Kind Of Lessons Tom Hetherington, Webb Com

pany legal chief, recently was watch-his four-year-old eldest daughter cavort in a pool at a Phoenix swim school where she was taking lessons.

And he was stunned to see her, un

noticed by the instructor, sink from

sight twice in a matter of moments.

Tom, on the opposite side of the pool,

spanned the distance in a twinkling,

dived in fully clothed and rescued a

very frightened but safe little Ann.

P.S. — She's still going to learn to

Missouri Beckons To Bob R. T. "Bob" White, job office man

ager on the Phoenix Towers project,

visited a brother in Joplin, Mo., while

vacationing this month.

Candidate For Blisters R. G. "Rob" Kenson, assistant to

Mr. Webb, has been "doing it him

self" lately on a patio-enclosing job

at his new residence in La Canada,

Calif. So far as can be determined

he still has all his fingers, without

any blackened fingernails, but we'll

bet he has discovered some muscles

he had long forgotten.

Welcome Home, Evelyn! Evelyn Martin, Main Office Secre

tary, flew to Los Angeles to visit over

a recent week-end with her mother,

Mrs. Zena Mae Martin of Santa Bar

bara. And, at the airport with her

mother to greet her, were her grand

mother, two aunts, a sister-in-law and

bicycle-riding nephew.

Jim Was Busy Fella They had a western regional con

ference of the Controllers Institute of America in Phoenix this month and W . J. (Jim) Miller, Webb Company business manager, had a prominent part in its success. He was one of 21 ambitious members of the Phoenix Control unit which entertained more than 200 delegates and their wives from British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California and Arizona at the two-day parley.

Andy Anderson Back On Job G. A. "Andy" Anderson of the Los

Angeles operations staff recently was hospitalized for an operation, but now is again on the job, welcomed

back by fellow employees to whom his friendliness and always-cheerful

greetings help make the day brighter.


SANTA ANITA FLAMINGO motor hotel construction details are checked at the jobsite by Martin Stern, Jr., (right), Beverly Hilts, Calif., architect on the project, with D. J. Kelly, Webb Company job superintendent. In background is the impressive coffee shop, which will have huge glass exterior fronting on intersection ot Huntington Drive and U.S. Highway 66 where it turns into Colorado Place.

bfietiKf /tfout$u*te t5 Newest in the Flamingo chain of Southwestern motor hotels, the beautiful Flamingo Santa Anita, is expected to be opened to the public about June 15 in Arcadia, Calif., just across Huntington Boulevard from famed Santa Anita racetrack.

A formal opening program will be presented at a later date, featuring the appearance of Hollywood stars and other nationally-known figures. George Gobel of television fame and Del Webb, one of the owners of the Yankees, are among the hotel's stock

holders.

The 123-unit hostelry is being

built by the Del E. Webb Construc

tion Co., which also will participate

in its ownership and operation. The

Flamingo Santa Anita joins a chain

of motor hotels which includes the

Bagdad at Las Vegas, the Flamingo

at Yuma, the Flamingo and El Ran-

cho at Flagstaff, the Sahara and Fla

mingo at Phoenix, the Flamingo at

Tucson, Flamingo hotels at El Paso

and San Antonio, Tex., and the Fron

tier Hotel in McAUen, Tex.

THE TASK of getting the job done on time at the new Santa Anita Flamingo Hotel falls pretty much on the shoulders of the men pictured above. They are, from left: Charles Konoske, plumbing superintendent; Clarence Allen, electrical superintendent; Al Boland, drywall superintendent; John Turner, carpentry foreman; Bill Dunlap, general carpentry foreman; Dole J. Kelly, Sr., job superintendent; Martin Stern, architect; Ralph Wanless, project manager, and Bernie Fladhammer, job office manager.


A NATIONALLY-KNOWN ARCHITECT, Welton Becket, F.A.I.A., who heads the firm of Welton Becket and Associates which designed the swank Beverly Hilton Hotel built by the Webb Company, has been selected to handle design of the new Florida project tor Howard Hughes.

Architectural Firm Of Welton Becket Boasts Wide Experience In Designing Major Industrial Plants The "team" of Welton Becket and Associates and the Del E. Webb Construction Co.. selected by Industrialist Howard Hughes to design and build his new Florida medical and industrial development, only recently completed the fabulous .$17,000,000 Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The Becket firm has had wide experience in design and the W e b b firm of both industrial ~ ~ [ ~

its highly secret brain room . completed in the coast city in 1952. The firm also has designed industrial buildings for Remington Rand, Inc.. the engineering building and offices of AiResearch Manufacturing Co. in Los Angeles, and large industrial plants in Kansas City. Toronto and other cities.

Mr. Becket himself is personal adviser to Secretary of the Air Force Donald Quarles regarding design of the new U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs.

The Becket firm designed the new

Medical Center of the University of California at Los Angeles, for which 830,000.000 in facilities have already been completed and an additional S70.000.000 will be built. It designed

the Mount Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles and the new 1.000-bed addition

in construction plants and medical buildings.

W e b b crews built the multi-million dollar guided missile manufacturing plant at Tucson, Ariz., for Hughes. and have done millions of dollars in work in expanding his Culver City plant, which is doing vital electronics manufacturing for the U.S. Air Force.

The W e b b Company built a huge plant in New Jersey for Pabco Products, and currently has underway in Northern California the SI5.000.000 first phase of an industrial development for Diamond Match Company.

The firm also has built large veterans hospitals in Denver. St. Louis. Kansas City. Mo.. Portland. Ore.. and Phoenix.

Welton Becket and Associates, with headquarters in Los Angeles, designed the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's new engineering building, with

Howard Hughes' Statement Reveals Florida Plans Howard Hughes' prepared statement on his proposed Florida airplane manufacturing plant, as released by Contractor Del E. Webb to newsmen at Tallahassee, said in part:

"While I am not now ready to talk about specific geographic location, I can say that I intend to establish in Florida a company which will engage in the design, development and manufacture of airplanes. Wherever it is located, its auxiliary businesses, subcontractors, and suppliers will make themselves felt in a healthy business way throughout the state.

"The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has already made its beginning in Florida. It recently acquired by lease a part of the Richmond Naval Air Station south of Miami and will conduct some of its research there. Officers' quarters will be made into suitable laboratories, administrative offices, lecture hall and conference rooms, library and dining facilities.

"Architects of the Del Webb company already have plans drawn for the renovation and air conditioning of these premises.

"The institute also recently leased a portion of a building adjacent to the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, which is being used for its biochemistry laboratories. Architect;

are at work drawing plans for the

permanent buildings to house this in

stitute when it outgrows these tem

porary quarters.

"I hope that m y own interests in

Florida will inspire more industry to

locate in this state. Florida has many

attractions, including an ideal cli

mate and a good labor market. Of

great importance, it has a state gov

ernment which obviously understands

the problems of industry and is ready

to help meet them."

to the U.S. Naval Hospital in San

Diego, as well as hospitals in the

more-than-500 bed classification in

other cities.

The firm recently received the Na

tional American Institute of Archi

tects' Award for its design of the Los

Angeles Police Facilities Building-

and has won 22 other national awards

for architecture and design.

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TUCSON, ARIZ., PLANT built by the Webb Company tor Howard Hughes encompasses almost 13 acres ot floor space, and is the birthplace of the deadly Falcon guided missile, which Assistant Air Force Secretary Trevor Gardner has termed "one of the most important contributions to the defense of the North American continent since the development of radar."

LOS ANGELES PLANT ot Hughes Aircraft, where Webb Company crews handled millions of dollars in new construction to modernize and tremendously enlarge facilities covering more than 34 acres ot floor space, now produces electronic systems for interceptor planes of the U.S. Air Force. Only a few months ago Hughes officials released the story of the electronic "brain" they are creating. It flies interceptor planes automatically and will enable pilots to locate and destroy attacking enemy bombers in any kind of weather, day or night, far from centers of population.


HERE'S HOW! He didn't win the golf tournament, but Paul Marks, purchasing agent for the Webb Company, provided some golf putting tips on the Camelback Inn practice green tor members of the Purchasing Agents Association of Arizona and their guests at the group's festival and meeting early this month. Paul is association treasurer. Interested spectators include Art Melka, (second from left), ot Oakland, Calif., vice-president of the National Association of Purchasing Agents; John Owens, (third from left), president of the Arizona association; John Hairgrove, president of the Los Angeles chapter, and (second from right), Ray Hill of Phoenix, a national director.

Design and Engineering Starts For Florida Project (Continued from Page 1)

already are at work on design and planning for the project.

In making the initial announcement at Tallahassee of the huge airplane manufacturing plant, Mr. Webb read a prepared telegraphic statement from Howard Hughes which also praised Governor Collins as "just about the best salesman any state ever had" and said that the Florida governor's earlier conferences with him in California and subsequent telephone discussions "have been the deciding factor in my decision to locate these activities in Florida."

Webb told the big group of newsmen and press, radio and television representatives that he couldn't say definitely when work of building the airplane plant would get under way, and indicated it would be a long-range project.

Governor Collins said: "I do not think we can overestimate the importance of these operations. He I Hughes) has a record of doing great things. He is a man of great capital and can finance any undertaking that he goes into. There is no doubt in my mind that once he makes a start a very fine and great development will come from his interests in Florida." The governor was asked whether

in his opinion the Hughes development would be as large as the Chem-strand Corporation nylon fiber plant near Pensacola, which is Florida's largest single industrial plant, built at a cost of almost $100 million.

"As large and as important as Chemstrand is, 1 believe that this far transcends in payrolls and in industrial development." Governor Collins

replied. Others at the Tallahassee news

conference were R. A. Gray, secretary of state, and William D. Jones and David W. Forester, Jacksonville attorneys for Hughes.

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DODGERS TO JAPAN Of interest to baseball fans was an

announcement in New York in mid-May that the Brooklyn Dodgers will barnstorm Japan next fall as champions of the world, even though they may suffer the indignity of losing that distinction long before their plane leaves for the Orient.

Visits 'Tall Corn' State Donna Warriner, wife of W. A. (Bill) Warriner, assistant business manager at the Phoenix office, recently returned from a flying visit of two weeks with her mother in Clinton, la., a sister and brother-in-law in Fort Dodge, and friends in Davenport, la. She says they're enthusiastic about the Webb Company's big housing project at Cedar Rapids.

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Sad Tidings Friends and associates of R. C.

"Dick" Hinton of the Los Angeles

office operations department were sad

dened recently by news of the passing

of Dick's mother, Mrs. Delcana S.

Hinton of Muncie. fnd. Funeral serv

ices, attended by Dick and other

members of the family, were held

April 12. Our deepest sympathy is

extended. Fortunately, Mrs. Hinton

visited recently with a daughter in

the San Francisco area, and Dick was

able to spend some time with her.

Yankee Baseball Interview On Voice of America Wins Commendation For Del Webb

An interview with Vice-Pres. Del E. Webb of the New York Yankees concerning the baseball team's exhibition tour of Japan last fall has

been broadcast world-wide by the

U.S. Information Service's Voice of

America and brought to Mr. Webb

a letter of commendation from Robert

J. Kent, special events officer.

Kent reported the interview "turned

out so well that it has been scheduled

for use on three different broadcasts:

two by our World Wide English Serv

ice and one translated into Japanese.

His letter added. "The Yankees'

trip was indeed a genuine contribu

tion to worldwide understanding and

good will, and no doubt the forerun

ner of many such trips to come, we

consider your interview another ver\

definite contribution in this same di

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NATION'S NO. I PITCHER, President Ike Eisenhower, is pictured ready to toss out first ball at the captal opener April 1 7, flanked by Managers Chuck Dressen of the Senators (left) and Casey Stengel of the Yankees. Co-Owner Del Webb of the Yankees can be seen just behind President's upraised hand, seated beside Mrs. Clark Griffith, widow of the owner of the Washington team. In front of Mr. Webb sits Howard Pyle, former Arizona governor and now an administrative assistant to the President. Yanks won the opener, 10 to 4. — (Don Wingfield Photo, courtesy The Sporting News).

IN DENVER, COLO., a week later, Yankee Owner Del Webb joined in ceremonies preceding the Denver-Charleston American Association opener at Bears Stadium. He is pictured with Manager Ralph Houk of Denver, (third from left); Mayor Nicholson ot Denver, and Charley Metro, Charleston manager, (right), during flag-raising by a Marine Corps color guard. Denver won, 12 to 4, and went on to annex 10 of their first 11 contests. — (Photo, courtesy Rocky Mountain News).

Season Openers Attract Del Webb

It was spring again — even if the chill wasn't out of the air in parts of the East.

The major leaguers had quit the warm sunshine of the training camps and headed back home for Opening Day. There was anticipation, nervousness and excitement in the air, and for many a veteran of the baseball wars there was that big question. "Have I got it this year?"

Into that kind of charged atmosphere. Yankee Co-Owner Del Webb gamboled last month like a happy kid

on a Sunday school picnic. The experts were picking his Yanks to repeat in the American League, though there wasn't anyone who would say authoritatively that there was little point in playing out the schedule. that the Bombers were actually shoo-ins, or that 01' Professor Stengel and his boys weren't as vulnerable as any

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CONSIRUCIICN

Del E. W e b b , President L. C. Jacobson, Executive Vice President and General Manager

R. A. Becker, Secretary W . J. Miller, Business Manager



T. F. Hetherington, Resident Counsel A. K. Stewart, Jr. J. W . Colachis

Grace Harter Arlen Miller

P H O E N I X OFFICE

302 South 23rd Avenue, P. O. Box 4066, Phoenix, Arizona, Phone ALpine 8-7441 J. R. Ashton, Vice President end District Manager

H. E. Boice, Chief of Operations F. S. Murray A. C. Jacobson, Sr, E. W . Flint T. E. Breen O. F. Childress T. L. Rittenhouse

Bobby Spaulding Lorraine Greager Alice Murdoch Evelyn Martin Mary Frazier

W . A. Warriner, Assistant Business Manager H. G. Winston P. G. Marks J. L. Morton J. P. McLain Rosa M. Kort G. G. Grantham Rose Romano D. L. Kauffman A m y Jo Hafford

Kara C. Newell Pearl S. Richardson Geraldine Hampton T. P. Mulkern L. O. Hoeft Gladys Sanders Mary P. Moss Mary Jane Spandau J. J. Sena

LOS A N G E L E S OFFICE


E. T. Davies, Chief of Operations D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager E. H. Smith, Jr. Ralph Wanless Enola O w e n s Gerald Harris G. A. Anderson Martha Little F. O. Langell Alice Stears Cecil Drinkward F. W . Danielson M. F. W e b b Sailie Tucker C. H. Dean Mary Somerfeld George Shaw Freda McDonald

C. F. Kintzi R. G. Fleming


2201 North Central Ave. Phoenix, Arizona

Kim Bannister, Mgr. of Job Operations F. L McDowell, Job Superintendent R. T. White, Job Office Manager



CEDAR RAPIDS, IA., OFFICE

Cedar Rapids, la. J. W . Ford, Mgr. of Job Operations T. O. Gilbreath, Job Superintendent L. D Sanders, Job Engineer J. S. Aubin, Job Office Manager R. L. Reeves

ARCA0IA, CALIF., OFFICE

130 West Huntington Drive Arcadia, Calif. Phone DOuglas 7-3520

Ralph G. Wanless, Mgr. of Job Operations D. J. Kelly, Job Superintendent B. Fladhammer, Job Office Manager

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE

Fifth & Boylston Sts. Los Angeles, Calif., Phone MAdison 6-2211

J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer W . R. Foeht, Job Office Manager W . C. Edmundson, Job Accountant M. M. DeConinck E. B. York G. A. Murray, Jr. Lillian Whitaker



J W Meeker, Mgr. of Job Operations C. L. Edwards, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager


Highway 9 9 W Red Bluff, Calif. Phone 1254

F. P. Kuentz, Mgr of Job Operations Stan Bateman, Job Superintendent M T. Rigg, Job Office Manager G. J. Kennedy, Job Accountant C. T. Powers

S A N DIEGO, CALIF, OFFICE



PHOENIX, ARIZ, OFFICE


J. W . Meeker, Mgr. of Job Operations C, L. Edwards, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager J. P. Hayden L. F. Press

Season Openers Attract Yankee Co-Owner Del Webb (Continued from Page 7)

other club to unpleasant surprises ranging from injuries to bad bounces on the playing field.

Webb was on hand when President Ike tossed out the first ball in Wash

ington. They watched six homers soar out of the confines of Griffith Stadium as the Yankees clobbered the Senators, 10 to 4.

He went up to New York for the Yankee Stadium inaugural, the pen-

No. j Volume 10 May, 1956





EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Del E. W e b b L. C. Jacobson R.A.Becker W.J.Miller

A m y Jo Hafford

EDITOR Jerry McLain





Member Society of Associated



Sfot6day& The Webb Spinner salutes another fine group of company employees who will observe birthday anniversaries during June, and expresses regret that the May 11 birthday aniversary of Sallie Sue Tucker of the Los Angeles office staff was inadvertently omitted from last month's list.

John Meeker. Phoenix June E F. S. Murray. Phoenix June 5 Ralph Reeves.

Cedar Rapids June 7 George Shaw. Los Angeles.June 10 Pearl Richardson. Phx June 19 Joe Aubin, Cedar Rapids....June 21 Neil Drinkward. L.A June 26 Dave Kauffman. Phoenix....June 30

nant-raising and other colorful ceremonies in which his baseball partner. Dan Topping; Commissioner Ford Frick and American League Prex\ William Harridge were participant? Then Webb joined an old pal, Dizz\ Dean, on a nationwide "Game of the Week" telecast in which he boosted such programs as a boon instead of a handicap to baseball, thus winning favor of many a TV-viewer.

The Yankees swept their opening series with the Boston Red Sox and. back in the West, this old-time ballplayer who carved for himself a still bigger career in construction vouchsafed that the Yankees were going

places ! "Thev showed a lot of power." said

Webb. Which is something like admitting that a mule"s kick carries

considerable author it v.

Vol. 10, No. 6 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, JUNE, 1956 16 Pages

FRIENDLY WELCOME. Del E. Webb, president of the Del E. Webb Construction Co., arriving in Cedar Rapids, la., to inspect his firm's $13,000,000 housing development and meet business, industrial and civic leaders, is welcomed at air terminal by Howard Hall, second from right, president of Iowa Manufacturing Co. and owner of the Amana Corporation; Mayor Jim Meaghan, right, and Attorney V. C. Shuttle-worth, left, of Cedar Rapids. For a picture story of Mr. Webb's bustling 10-hour visit in the Iowa industrial city, see Pages 2 and 3.

Cedar Rapids Civic Leaders Honor Webb; Laud Housing Plans By Bruce Fishwild

Cedar Rapids Gazette Staff Writer

Del Webb, Phoenix and Los Angeles resident who owns a nationwide construction company and a part of the N e w York Yankees, "made haste slowly" through a busy schedule in

Cedar Rapids on June 16. A large m a n (physically as well as

in business), he walked and talked in a leisurely manner and looked like anything but the popular picture of a

busy business man. But he covered a lot of territory be

tween the time he landed at Municipal Airport shortly before noon and the time he took off again at about 10 p.m.

His first stop was the Roosevelt hotel, where he met and talked with most of a group of about 50 Cedar Rapids civic leaders before a luncheon at 12:30. H e spoke briefly following the luncheon.

"There are only two things


FLAMINGO SANTA ANITA OPENS. Finishing touches were being applied, when photo above was taken, to the Flamingo Santa Anita motor hotel at Arcadia, Calif., which opened for business June 25. Built and partly owned by the Webb Company, the hostelry is located just across the street from Santa Anita race track, and joins a <,-'••-•'•- * ii^&b? 5qafe!s :.- Nevada. Arizona and Texas. Additional pictures, Page 9.


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FLYING EASTWARD after inspecting his firm's Diamond Match Co. project in Red Bluff, Calif., to see his New York Yankees in an important series with the Cleveland Indians, Contractor Del Webb paused for an afternoon and evening in Cedar Rapids, la., to look over a Webb Company housing development, enjoy a get-together with business, industrial and civic leaders, and be an honor guest at a Cedar Rapids-Terre Haute baseball game. On this page is a brief picture story of his first six hours in Cedar Rapids.

Builder Webb rode with Mayor Jim Meaghan In mile-long Cedar Rapids Centennial parade sponsored by 29 Czech groups . . .

Addressed a luncheon group in Hotel Roosevelt... Appeared on two TV and two radio sportscasts

Visited Howard Hall and friends at Hall's estate Then joined two of his top executives to


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CEDAR RAPIDS ASSOCIATES of the Webb Company in construction ot the 1,150-homes Cedar Rapids project hosted the luncheon honoring Mr. Webb, and in attendance were about SO leaders in industrial, business, professional and civic life. Atty. V. C. Shtuuleworth was toastmaster, and Mayor Meag-han and John B Turner, Chamber of Commerce president, welcomed the contractor-sportsman.

Mr. Webb spoke briefly, saying he felt the city would be proud of his firm's housing development, and terming Cedar Rapids industry on a higher level and more diversified than in most cities.

At speakers' table were (from left, In photo left above) O. L. Becker, John F. Miller and A. L. Smulekoft, Cedar Rapids business associates of Webb firm; John B. Turner, chamber president; Mr. Webb, Mayor Meaghan; (from right, in photo right above) Robert O. Daniel of Elliott, Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, Cedar Rapids law firm representing Webb Company; H. M. Becker and Leo Smulekotf, Webb associates on housing project; V. C. Shuttle-worth, toastmaster and member of law firm representing Webb, and Mayor Meaghan and Webb.

Informal gab-fests preceded the luncheon as Mr. Webb was introduced to Cedar Rapids leaders. He is pictured (above, left) with Robert H. Caldwell, chamber of commerce executive secretary; John B. Turner, chamber president; George H. Cockburn, insurance executive and chairman of city planning and zoning commission, and Frank W. Byers, attorney and state senator from Linn County. Other group (above, right) includes Sutherland Dows, president of the Iowa Electric Light and Power Co.; S. E. Coquillette, chairman ot the board of Merchants National Bank, and, at right, Arthur A. Collins, president of Collins Radio Co.


Iowa's Newest Housing To Go On Display In Webb Co. Project At Cedar Rapids

Development Designed To Offer Housing For Industrial Expansion Cedar Hills, long-awaited answer to the need in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for new-type housing, was to be opened to the public late in June.

Designed to make available new and modern residences which community business and civic leaders believe are needed to attract additional industry, Cedar Hills is a project of the Del E. Webb Construction Co.,

sponsored by the Cedar Hills Development Co.

The first phase calls for erection of 256 residences, with 500 homes valued at more than $6,000,000 scheduled for completion this year, and the overall planning designed to provide Cedar Rapids with a complete community of 1,150 homes and shopping facilities representing an investment of more than $13,000,000.

Associated with the Webb firm in the ambitious housing project are five leaders in Cedar Rapids business and professional life — A. L. and Leo Smulekoff, John F. Miller, and 0. L. and Harold Becker.

Since the project site has been annexed by Cedar Rapids, residents will

have city water and sewer service, natural gas and electricity. Streets will be paved, with curbs. Modern

schools and shopping facilities already are convenient. Because of the

gentle slope of project lands, the

FIRST PUBLIC DISPLAY of model homes in the new Cedar Hills subdivision being built by the Del E. Webb Construction Co. at Cedar Rapids, la., was scheduled the last week-end in June. Finishing touches were being applied when photo above was taken in mid-June.

LAWNS WERE LAID like carpeting at the model homes in Cedar Hills. Truck is loaded with sod, which is rolled up sections of turf. Thus, the yard is "carpeted" with grass.

houses will present a pleasing, terraced appearance.

They are of conventional construc

tion, and Cedar Hills homes offer fea

tures which in the area are found in

custom-built residences. All will have

three bedrooms, some with one bath

room, some with two baths. Some

have a "family room" in addition to

the living room. Others have a roomy

storeroom off the kitchen, with as

phalt tile floor and painted walls,

which can be converted to a second

bathroom.

Charles and Arthur Schreiber of Phoenix are project architects.

Sad Tidings Paul Kuentz of Alameda, Calif., father of Fred Kuentz, manager of job operations for the Webb Company on the Diamond Match Co. project,

passed away unexpectedly in mid-June. Funeral services were held June 22 at the Fowler Anderson Funeral Home in Alameda. Fred's father was an old-time electrical contractor who

followed that profession 44 years be

fore retiring as a charter member of

the San Francisco Electrical Workers

Union. Since his retirement he had

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Here Are Some Of The Folks Directing Cedar Rapids Work CONSTRUCTION of the Cedar Hills project in Cedar Rapids is largely being directed by the crew pictured at right, including Webb Company men and two representatives of subcontractors. All labor is hired in the Cedar Rapids area. In photo at right those pictured, from left, are: Dave Sanders, job engineer; Al Foster, superintendent for Waldo Plumbing; Jack Ford, manager of job operations, and Tom Gilbreath, job superintendent for the Webb Company; Bill Hennessey of Hennessey Brothers, Cedar Rapids, subcontractors for sewer and water lines, curb and gutter construction, and Jay Beckley, timekeeper.

OFFICE STAFF for the construction operation (photo at left) includes Joe Aubin, seated, job office manager; Virginia Haffner, secretary, and Ralph Boatman, accountant. Aubin, like Ford, Gilbreath, Sanders and several others, are Webb Company men who were sent to Iowa to direct the housing project.

THE TASK OF EXPEDITING, planning and details other than construction falls on the shoulders of Ralph Reeves of Phoenix, representing the Company's housing department in Cedar Rapids. He is pictured with Secretary Marge Hawkins and, in doorway, Don Bogue, who handles advertising anrl m

ON VISIT TO JOBSITE, Tom Breen, right center, manager of housing for the Webb Company, and Owen Childress, left center, housing department expediter from the Phoenix office, confer with Ralph Reeves, left, and Job Supt. Tom Gilbreath, right.


Webb €&* Receives Heme Builder Award

AGGRESSIVE MERCHANDISING in the home building industry won this suitably-inscribed bronze plaque for Tom Breen, Phoenix manager of housing for the Webb Company.

TOP RECOGNITION for their merchandising efforts in sale of new homes has been accorded three Arizona men by Minneapolis-Honeywell Co. in con/unction with the National Association of Home Builders. Pictured receiving their bronze plaques from Vaughn Darrow, president of the Phoenix Association of Home Builders, are, from left: Francia Bria, formerly with Del Monte Construction Co.; Alfred Andersen, Jr., Alfred Andersen Construction Co., Inc., and Tom Breen, Del E. Webb Construction Co. (Photo, Courtesy Arizona Republic)

Certainly Sound Familiar

Could there be any significance to some of the names assigned streets in the new Cedar Hills subdivision being built by the Webb Company in Iowa? There's a Boice road, a Johnson avenue, a Ford avenue, a Jacolyn drive and a Drinkward street.

Operation Sidelines Fritz

F. W. "Fritz" Danielson, office engineer on the Beverly Hilton project from Los Angeles headquarters, recently was hospitalized for removal of kidney stones. While his recovery was not as rapidly as he and his friends hoped, Fritz is now back on the job and "hitting on all eight."

Riding In Style Now

Bobby Spaulding, secretary to Vice-Pres. J. R. Ashton at the Phoenix office, is sporting a flashy new green and white Plymouth sedan. Claimed she couldn't trust the old bus to hold together any longer, so traded it, so someone else could worry about it.

Amy Has New Yarn

Back in the summer of 1950 Secretary A m y Jo Hafford was knitting a pair of sox for a young gentleman friend. They originally were started in the winter, but she still was working on them when she started her summer vacation. Now she's busy with the yarn and needles again, but this time,

she says, it's going to be a knitted tie. Hm-m-m-m! Pretty wide in some places for a tie!

Death Takes Don Metz

Donald L. Metz, 37, wealthy executive of the Aldon Construction Co. which was associated with the Webb Company in the building of the town

of San Manuel, Ariz., and construction of housing in San Diego, was found dead May 29 in a Ventura, Calif., motel. Nearby were letters ad

dressed to relatives, friends and business associates, and strewn about the room were several open medicine bottles, pills, capsules and sleeping pow

ders. Arthur Desser, his attorney, said Metz had lost 47 pounds in recent

months and appeared on the verge of a complete nervous collapse. Besides his construction work, he was active in civic affairs. He is survived by his wife, Anita; two daughters, and his

parents.

Webb Now Ranch Owner

Pres. Del E. Webb is a member of a syndicate of Arizona and Midwestern investors which has purchased the Sundown Ranch and Country Club in Paradise Valley near Scottsdale, Ariz. The $435,000 purchase price bought a 165-acre ranch, clubhouse, swimming pool, and 18-hole golf course. It is to be improved at considerable cost and operated as a private country club.

Our Gain Is Stage's Loss

When Women of the Moose at Phoenix recently presented "The Moose Follies of 1956" for the benefit of the Arizona Society of Brain Injured Children, a new star blossomed on the West High School stage. He is Barney Dobbs, an equipment man at Webb Company headquarters. Dobbs, a member of the Moose lodge, was a sensation in a boys' ballet, played a stellar part as a third grade pupil in a scene depicting the Little Red School House, and proved pretty adept in a Charleston number. But, alas, he has decided to stick to his job of servicing and maintaining equipment at the


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I know anything about and try

to talk about," he said. "Baseball and construction."

He told how he entered the construction business as a carpenter at

the age of 10, signed a baseball contract at the age of 17 and for a time carpentered in the winter and played baseball in the summer.

Switching to the Cedar Hills subdivision his company is building in

Cedar Rapids, Webb said "our boys came in and made an inventory" and found that "this is the kind of town we like to come into." He said his company will make a

good development — "the kind the people of Cedar Rapids will be proud

of." Webb said his company likes to show a profit but it also likes to "build something and know it is a success." Webb said Cedar Rapids industry

is on a higher level and has more diversification than most cities, and that Cedar Rapids industries pay better salaries so people can buy the kind of homes they want. He added that he hopes to be able

to return when he can take time to play a little golf and get better acquainted. He closed with a couple of baseball stories. Attorney V. C. Shuttleworth acted

as master of ceremonies for the lunch

eon, introducing Webb's Cedar Rap

ids associates in the project and the speakers, of which there were only two others.

Mayor Jim Meaghan extended a "most sincere welcome", commented that the city is "grateful for the fine housing project" and introduced other city officials.

John B. Turner, president of the Chamber of Commerce, also welcomed Webb and described his company as "the type we like to see in Cedar Rapids." Appearance in the Centennial pa

rade, a television appearance and a visit to the home of Industrialist Howard Hall were followed by an inspection trip to the site of the Cedar Hills development.

There he posed for pictures, waded through mud left by an afternoon thundershower, walked through one of the four model homes which have been completed, talked over Cedar Rapids industrial prospects with several of his Cedar Rapids associates, and retired to the construction shack to make long distance phone calls.

He finished out the day with another television appearance, a dinner for a small group in the Roosevelt, and attendance at the Raiders' Saturday night baseball game.

Our postcard-writing champion, A.

C. (Pop) Johnson, Sr., of the Phoenix operations department, got off to a bad start on his vacation this summer. Because there's no more solid backer of Del Webb's Yankees than Pop, he arranged his vacation trip to his sister's home in Wisconsin with a Chicago stopover to see the Yankees tangle in a four-game series with the Chicago White Sox. Pop even rode back and forth to the ballpark with the Yankee team. And what happened to the league-leading Bombers? Chicago clobbered them in four straight games. (Owner Webb also was on hand to suffer through the series). Wrote Pop to Phoenix friends as he headed for Wisconsin: "These four games will go into the records as freaks . . . our men just couldn't hit their pitchers."

Better Hire A Guard

Dave Sanders, job engineer on the Cedar Rapids housing project, has a glass candy jar in his room in which he saves — not nickles or dimes, but half dollars. And his roommates, Joe Aubin. Jack Ford and Ralph Reeves. have quite a little joke. They sav the glass jar bank is the handiest place to get "breakfast money". So if Dave begins wondering why the savings aren't building up faster

BUILDERS OF CEDAR HILLS are pictured posing for news and television photographers when Pres. Del E. Webb and two of his top executives, with their Cedar Rapids associates, visited the Iowa housing development site June 16. From right to left, those grouped for the newsman's photo are: Mayor Jim Meaghan of Cedar Rapids; Mr. Webb, L. C. Jacob-son, executive vice-president, and J. R. Ashton, vice-president of the Webb Company, who flew from Phoenix to join Mr. Webb in the inspection tour; A. L. Smulekoff, O. L. Becker, H. M. Becker and John F. Miller, Cedar Rapids associates of the Webb Company in the Cedar Hills project; Ralph L. Reeves, manager for the housing department; Jack W. Ford, manager ot construction operations, and Tom Gilbreath, job superintendent.


Management Takes A Look At Webb Co. Construction weii, There's A Roof overhead

W O R K SESSION. Spring management meeting brought Webb Company executives, business and operations chiefs together in Phoenix early this month for a review of construction activities since last fall, and a look into the future. Pictured in photo above, from right: E. T. Davies, chief of operations, Los Angeles; L. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president and general manager, Pres. Del E. Webb; R. H. Johnson, vice-president and Los Angeles office manager; George Grantham, accountant, and W. J. Miller, business manager, both of Phoenix.

'MY POINT IS THIS,' says Vice-Pres. J. R. Ashton, leading a discussion at the management meeting. Also shown in photo above are: (at left) Davies, Los Angeles; (at right) Howard E. Boice, chief of operations. Phoenix, and Thomas F. Hetherington of Phoenix, resident counsel. PHOTO BELOW — This conference view shows, from left: R. G. Kenson, assistant to the president, Mr. Miller, Mr. Grantham, Dale E. Griffith, assistant business manager, Los Angeles, and R. A. Becker, company secretary-treasurer, Phoenix.

Ralph G. Wanless of the Los Angeles operations department still is puttering around on his "do it yourself" project at his new home. He has, in his spare time, done practically all the carpentry, cabinet work, door fitting and hanging, painting, decorating, floor installation, etc., himself. But he now has discovered that he was able to accomplish more on weekends before he moved the family into the new home than since he has occupied it. Could be there's too much competition from TV. (Incidentally, for those in the Webb Company organization elsewhere in the country who lament having a lengthy drive to work and back, Ralph's round trip daily is about 46 miles).

Gathering Photo Information

In Los Angeles on a photographic assignment, Jerry McLain of the Webb Company's public relations department recently attended a Glendale Rotary Club meeting with Dale Griffith, assistant business manager at the Los Angeles office, and heard an excellent "craft" talk on color photography by Bill Drewry, president of Drewry Photocolor of Glendale, Calif., second largest processor of color film in the U.S. Bill's interesting talk was illustrated by color slides of the modern equipment in his plant.

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Casey Visits Canada

Kara (Casey) Newell of the Phoenix office accounting department vaca

tioned this summer in Seattle, Wash., where she attended an American Baptist Church convention, met former Phoenix friends who now reside in Hawaii, and exchanged greetings with Howard Pyle, former Arizona governor who now is an administrative assistant to President Eisenhower, and was at the convention as a speaker. Casey made a one-day boat trip to Victoria, B.C., lunched at the Empress Hotel and — during the four

hours she spent under the rule of the Queen of England — also looked over tbe beautiful flower gardens at the Empress and did some window shop

ping. She found the cool Seattle summer weather and refreshing daily showers of rain a welcome change from Arizona, but says she still was


Santa Anita Flamingo Motor Hotel Opened; Fall Program Planned The Webb Company's newest motor hotel, the beautiful Santa Anita Flamingo just across the street from Santa Anita racetrack in Arcadia, Calif., was in business late this month.

Built for the Flamingo chain of motor hotels, Santa Anita Flamingo is partly owned by the Webb Company, as are other units of the chain in Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso and San Antonio, Tex.

Mike Robinson, managing director of the Flamingo chain, on hand to supervise opening of the new hostelry and welcome its first guests, said a formal opening program featuring

Hollywood film stars would not be attempted before early fall. A stockholder in the new hotel is George Gobel of radio, film and television fame.

The Santa Anita Flamingo is located on Huntington Drive (Highway 66) — o n e of the main arteries into Los Angeles from the east — at the intersection with Colorado Place, which leads into Pasadena. It has 123 units, each with its own automobile parking space and its own private veranda overlooking a landscaped center court.

Recreational features include a picturesque swimming pool, a golf put

ting green, shuffleboard court, and a playground for children. An administration building houses a dining room, cocktail lounge, coffee shop and offices. A banquet room also is being

added to accommodate large dining groups.

Job superintendent on the project was D. J. Kelly, with Ralph Wanless serving as operations man. Martin Stern, Jr., Beverly Hills, Calif., was

the architect.

Ah, Those Big Steaks

Job Supt. Tom Gilbreath and wife, Gertrude, who have settled their family in a rural home out in the rolling farm lands near Cedar Rapids, enter

tained some of the fellows from Tom's Cedar Hills job at a fine steak dinner

recently. Guests included Jack Ford, Joe Aubin, Dave Sanders, Ralph

Reeves, and Jerry McLain, who was

visiting from the Phoenix office at the

time. And only one of the five was able to eat tw^ sfca.»,Vs!

LOOKING ACROSS POOL, into inner patio at the fashionable Santa Anita Flamingo Motor Hotel in Arcadia, Calif. Landscape work was just beginning when this photo was made early this month. Lush greenery greeted visitors when hostelry welcomed its first guests late in June.

DINERS at the new Santa Anita Flamingo will enjoy a view through a huge glass window wall across the landscaped patio and colorful swimming pool.

Traveled Vacation Trail One of our early-summer vacation

ists, Fred McDowell, superintendent

on the Phoenix Towers apartment

project, and Mrs. McDowell returned

last month from a trip to Las Vegas,

Nev., Lake Tahoe and the San Fran

cisco bay cities in Northern Cali

fornia. They encountered consider

able rain on the West Coast, and were

happy to see Arizona's sunshine

again.


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Awards Service Pins

To Veteran Employees

FOR JACK McPHEE, veteran job superintendent currently directing construction ot the Clairmont housing development in San Diego, a diamond-studded 15-year service pin.

FOR DALE GRIFFITH, assistant business manager at the Los Angeles Office, who joined the Webb Company at Fort Hauchuca in Southern Arizona in 1940, a diamond-studded 15-year pin.

MORE THAN 80 YEARS of Webb Company service was represented among seven employees ot the Los Angeles office to whom Pres. Del E. Webb presented service pins after a sumptuous dinner in the swank Saray Room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., this month. Dinner guests were, (from left, seated) Mrs. Edward T. Davies, Mrs. Fritz W. Danielson, Mrs. Dale E. Griffith, Mrs. J. N. McPhee, Mrs. C. H. Dean, and Dale E. Griffith; (standing, from left) Fritz W. Danielson, R. H. (Bob) Johnson, Enola M. Owens, Mr. Webb, Mrs. R. H. Johnson, John J. Fahey, Mrs. Fahey, Edward T. Davies, Jack McPhee, and Cliff H. Dean.

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ENOLA OWENS, secretary to the Los Angeles Office manager, was honored tor 10 years of service.

EDWARD T. DAVIES, chief of operations, Los Angeles Office, being congratulated by Mr. Webb on completing 10 years of service.

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JOHN J. FAHEY, manager of job operations on the Union Oil project in Los Angeles, received 10-year pin.

FRITZ W. DANIELSON, veteran job engineer currently on Los Angeles operations staff, was awarded 10-year pin.

SCENES FROM PIN-PARTY DINNER in stylish Saray Room at Beverly Hilton Hotel are shown above. LEFT PHOTO — Marion and John Fahey obviously enjoy conversation with Virginia Davies while husband Ed looks on. Artia and Jack McPhee chatting at right. RIGHT PHOTO — Pictured, from left, are Mr. Webb, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Griffith.


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T W O DIAMONDS SPARKLE in the new 20-year service pin presented by Mr. Webb to Amy Jo Hafford, the pleasant blond who holds one of the construction firm's most important secretarial posts, serving both Mr. Webb and L. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president. Two other employees — R. H. Johnson of Los Angeles and Kara C. Newell of Phoenix — wear the coveted 20-year pins.

PRESENTATION of the service pins at the Phoenix dinner, held in the beautiful Sky Room at Hotel Sahara, was witnessed by more than 30 Webb Company employees and their wives, including the pin recipients.

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Diamond-studded 15-year Webb Company service pins were awarded to

H. G. (Speedy) Winston, chief accountant . . .

L. O. (Blackie) Hoeft, warehouseman . . .

A. C. (Pop) Jacobson, Sr., estimator . . .

ALMOST A CENTURY OF SERVICE fo the Webb Company was represented by this group of nine men, pictured with Mr. Webb, to each of whom he presented a 10-year service pin. They are, from left: Frank S. Murray, estimator; Milford T. Rigg, now job office manager at Red Bluff, Calif.; John W. Meeker, job operations man; Tony P. Kohl, job office manager; John L. Morton, accountant; Paul G. Marks, purchasing agent; W. J. Miller, business manager; Howard E. Boice, chief of operations at Phoenix, and Kim Bannister, job operations


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IT WASN'T SCHEDULED! In fact, it was three years overdue! But about the time the Webb Company's pin party at Hotel Sahara in Phoenix was winding up, Executive Vice-Pres. L. C. Jacobson popped up to say there was someone present who was entitled to receive a service pin, and it hadn't been presented ... ...Then Mr. Jacobson pinned on Mr. Webb's lapel a diamond-encrusted

25-year service pin, admitting it "already was three years overdue."

FOR YEARS A PARTNER of Mr. Webb, Executive Vice-Pres. Jacobson paid high tribute to "The Chief," and related humorous incidents of their construction activities. He also presented to Mr. Webb a framed "picture story" which portrayed Webb in almost identical poses as a young carpenter, then as a building contractor; showed him with his "team" ot construction executives and "team" of baseball executives, then pictured his favorite diversion, making speeches; his favorite pastime, baseball horseplay, and his favorite avocation, breaking ground on his construction jobs.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Because the pin-party dinner occurred on the birthday anniversary of both Frank Murray and young Johnny Meeker, they received a huge birthday cake in addition to their 10-year servic pins. They're pictured, with Mr. Webb and Mr. Jacobson, cutting it to serve pin-party diners. Other photo shows guests inspecting placard showing "Pin Party Team" members from the Phoenix office.


Site Of Phoenix Towers Construction Hums With Activity

AND IT WAS HOT! With much of the work below ground level, yet under a broiling midsummer sun, huge footings were being poured and walls of the basement and elevator pit were being formed this month for the 14-story Phoenix Towers apartment structure on North Central Avenue just off the edge of the business district. Job Supt. Fred McDowell expected to be out of the ground by mid-July, and in late June had his heavy equipment at work excavating an underground garage to cover 32,000 square feet with parking space for 120 automobiles. Apartments were designed by Architect Ralph C. Harris of Chicago.

No, you do not have to live in Paris to be a parasite.

Adversity tries great men; prosperity the small ones.

If your business is all run down, you can wind it up, can't you?

People, like boats, toot loudest when they're in a fog.

No one is quite so hopeless as the person who does nothing but hope.

One thing comes to the man who waits, and that's whiskers.

One way to have a clean mind, change it occasionally.

The best way to test a man's friendship is to ask him to go on your note.

If he refuses, he is your friend.

When a man is elevated, he either grows or swells.

If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.

It's easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

According to the latest magazines in doctors' waiting rooms, we are about to win the war.

Earth Moving And Building Erection Is Pushed At Red Bluff

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— DIRECTORY DEL E.WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO.

DEL E.WEBB

CCNSIRUCIION

Del E. Webb, President L. C Jacobson, Executive Vice President and General Manager

R. A. Becker, Secretary W. J. Miller, Business Manager

R. G. Kenson, Assistant to the President LEGAL AND INVESTMENT DEPARTMENT


Grace Harter Arlen Miller PHOENIX OFFICE


H. E. Boice, Chief of Operations F. S. Murray A. C Jacobson, Sr. E. W. Flint T. E. Breen O. F. Childress

T. L. Rittenhouse Bobby Spaulding Lorraine Greager Alice Murdoch Evelyn Martin

W. A. Warriner, Assistant Business Manager H. G. Winston P. G. Marks J. L. Morton J. P. McLain Rosa M. Kort G. G. Grantham Rose Romano D. L. Kauffman Amy Jo Hafford

Kara C Newell Pearl S. Richardson Geraldine Hampton T. P. Mulkern L. O. Hoeft Gladys Sanders Mary Jane Spandau J. J. Sena Lovie Epley


. Johnson, Vice President and District Manager R. H.

E. T. Davies, Chief of Operations E. H. Smith, Jr. Ralph Wanless G. A. Anderson Martha Little Cecil Drinkward F. W. Danielson C H. Dean R. G. Fleming

D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager Enola Owens Gerald Harris F. O. Langell Alice Stears M.F.Webb Sallie Tucker George Shaw Freda McDonald


2201 North Central Ave. Phoenix, Arizona Kim Bannister, Job Operations F. L McDowell, Job Superintendent R. T. White, Job Office Manager


CEDAR RAPIDS, IA„ OFFICE P. O. Box 1864. 4000 Johnson Rd., N.W. Cedar Rapids, la. J. W. Ford, Mgr. of Job Operations T. O. Gilbreath, Job Superintendent L. 6 Sanders, Job Engineer J. S. Aubin, Job Office Manager R. L. Reeves J. C. Beckley

ARCADIA, CALIF., OFFICE 130 West Huntington Drive Arcadia, Calif. Phone DOuglas 7-3520 Ralph G. Wanless, Job Operations D. J. Kelly, Job Superintendent B. Fladhammer, Job Office Manager

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE Fifth & Boylston Sts. Los Angeles, Calif., Phone MAdison 6-2211 J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer C. F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager Milton Hoppe, Job Accountant M. M. DeConinck E. B. York G. A. Murray, Jr. Lillian Whitaker W. R. Foeht Mary Somerfeld



J. W. Meeker, Job Operations C. L. Edwards, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager


P. O. Box 526 Highway 99W Red Bluff, Calif. Phone 1605 F. P. Kuentz, Mgr of Job Operations Stan Bateman, Job Superintendent M T. Rigg, Job Office Manager G. J. Kennedy, Job Accountant C. T. Powers



R. C. Hinton, Job Operations J. N. McPhee, Job Superintendent P. D. Clouthier, Job Office Manager C. J. Daniel



J. W. Meeker, Job Operations C. L. Edwards, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager J. P. Hayden L. F. Press

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EDITORIAL COMMITTEE

Amy Jo Hafford

EDITOR Jerry McLain



Dale Griffith, Los Angeles CIRCULATION MANAGER




Industrial Editors

L. C, Jacobson W.J.Miller

Marks Named Vice-President By Arizona Purchasing Agents

New vice-president of the Purchasing Agents Association of Arizona is

Paul G. Marks, r | ^ ^ purchasing agent

^ ^ for the W e b b ^ Company, who is

slated to move up to the presidency next year when the association entertains the 1957 fall Pacific I n t e r m o u n -tain Conference of Purchasing

Agents.

Some 400 to 500 delegates and their wives are expected from Hawaii and the western United States for the three-day parley.

Paul, who has previously served as treasurer and a director of the Arizona purchasing agents, is taking an active part in planning the 1957 convention, and — as president of the Arizona association — would be the No. 1 host.

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Best wishes for a happy anniversary

are extended by The Webb Spinner to another group of fine Webb Company

employes who will observe birthdays

during July. They include:

Martha Little.

Los Angeles July 9

Kim Bannister, Phoenix. July 11

Cecil Kintzi,

Los Angeles July 12

Evelyn Martin, Phoenix. July 12

C. J. Daniel, San Diego.July 13

Lorrie Greager, Phoenix July 15

Robert A. Becker,

Phoenix July

Cradle Topic The family of Allen K. Stewart, Jr. of the Webb Company legal and in

vestment department took a sudden jump in size this month when seven-

pound Ann Catherine Stewart arrived June 19 in St. Joseph's Hospital. Proud father, the mother, Catherine. and young Ann are reported doing

Vol. 10, No. 7 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, JULY, 1956 Eight Pages

BEAUTIFUL SANTA ANITA FLAMINGO, newest of the chain ot motor hotels being built by the Webb Company tor the Flamingo Hotels system, is located at Arcadia, Calif., across the street from Santa Anita racetrack, and on the outskirts ot Pasadena. By its brightly-lighted entrance flows the heavy traffic ot U. S. Highway 66, including travelers bound into or out of Los Angeles on Huntington Drive, and

inbound and outbound Pasadena traffic on Colorado Place.

SPACIOUS LANDSCAPED GROUNDS in which a gracefully-curved swimming pool glistens like a jewel feature the Santa Anita Flamingo. A golf putting green and a sandy, enclosed children's playground are

other aids to relaxation.

Webb Co. To Build New Phoenix Hotel For Flamingo Chain

A new 250-room luxury hotel, representing an investment of nearly $2,500,000, will be started in Phoenix during August by the Del E. Webb Construction Co. for the Flamingo chain, Managing Director Mike Robinson has announced.

Third of the Flamingo hostelries in Phoenix, it will be erected at the northeast corner of 32nd and Van Buren Streets, on heavily-traveled U.S. Highways 60-70-80-89, and it will join the downtown Sahara and the present Flamingo motor hotel at 2501 East Van Buren street.

Name of the new hotel has not yet been determined, but a December

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Arcadia Opening To Star Gobel, Cast At Aug. 26 Program

Another Flamingo hotel opening with all the fanfare of a Hollywood premiere, starring George Gobel of television and film fame — himself a

stockholder in the Flamingo chain — is scheduled Sunday, August 26, in Arcadia, Calif.

The scene will be the dazzling new Flamingo Santa Anita motor hotel

just across the street from fabulous Santa Anita race track.

Built and partly owned by the Del E. Webb Construction Co., the Santa Anita Flamingo is one of the most

beautiful in the chain of motor hotels which includes the multi-million dollar Sahara at Phoenix and others

stretching from Southern California

through Arizona and into Texas. Managing director of the chain is Mike Robinson.

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Comfort, Convenience And Opportunity For Relaxation Provided By New Flamingo

fn Southern California's mild year-round weather, Sandy playground to delight hearts ot young visitors Flamingo pool is a mecca for guests. boasts swings, teeter and slide.

Near glass-enclosed lobby entrance is clerk's desk. Comfortably-furnished lobby is adjacent to cocktail gift shop, tobacco and newsstand. lounge and just off dining room.

Lobby view into colorful patio, toward swimming Newest of the Flamingo hotels is just across Hunting-pool, is through floor-to-ceiling glass wall. ton Boulevard from Santa Anita raeetrarlr.

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Colorful And Luxurious Atmosphere Offered Diners At New California Hostelry

Coffee shop has^ 26-foot-high front, mostly of glass, From inside, diners command view of busy intersec-and is brightly lighted at night. tion of Colorado and Huntington boulevards.

Dining room, beautifully carpeted and softly lighted, On other side, dining room is separated from cocktail has floor-to-ceiling glass wall next to patio. lounge by attractive planter wall.

From elevated locale of dining room, diners may view One corner of cocktail lounge is furnished with com-swimmina oool, children's playground and golf put- fortable, leather-upholstered booths.

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flamingo Santa Anita Glows In Magical Splendor

Flamingo dining room, with its glass wall fronting on garden-like patio and pool, glows like a jewel in its nighttime brilliance.

Attractively-designed stairways to second floor rooms, all ot which open onto patio, are spacious

and brightly lighted after dark.

Even rear of new Flamingo Hotel, with its convenient auto parking areas adjacent to guests' rooms,

is bright with night lighting.

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This is the view which greets travelers arriving at night at new Santa Anita Flamingo Motor Hotel just completed by the Webb Company in Arcadia, Calif.

Drive-up registration window offers bright nighttime welcome. Hotel entry is richly decorated with

colored stone.

Patio outside dining room is softly lighted tor guests who wish to dine out of doors in evening.

Setting overlooks pool.

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N ew 250-Room Hotel Planned For Phoenix

(Continued from Page One) opening is planned. It will be of Colo

nial design, with attractive coffee shop, dining room and cocktail lounge, banquet and conference

rooms, and — in a spacious gardenlike patio — such aids to relaxation as a beautiful pool, shuffleboard courts, grassy golf putting links, and

other features. "This will be the largest motor ho

tel in the Southwest and will incorporate new features never before found in such highway hostelries," Mr. Robinson declared.

It will be the 14th establishment in the Flamingo chain.

The Webb Company not only will construct the hotel but will participate in its ownership with Stockholders Max Sherman, Mortimer Levin, Ezra Ressman and Marion Isbell, all of Chicago, and Mr. Robinson.

Many Firms Participate In Flamingo Construction

Hundreds of persons engaged in a galaxy of trades and businesses and representing more than 50 different firms had a part in the building and furnishing of the new Flamingo Santa Anita motor hotel at Arcadia. Calif.

Overseeing activities of the many workmen on the job was D. J. Kelly, Webb Company job superintendent. Serving as operations man to coordinate activities of construction men, the architect and owners was Ralph G. Wanless of the Los Angeles office. Both came to the job after it was started, Kelly succeeding Stan Bateman. who moved to Red Bluff to superintend building of the Diamond Math plant, and Wanless taking over for W . A. (Bill) Warriner, who became assistant business manager at the Phoenix office. Joe Aubin was the initial job office manager and, when he was transferred to the Cedar Rapids housing project, he was suc

ceeded by Bernard Fladhammer.

Subcontractors and suppliers fall

Los Angeles firms unless otherwise identified I included: A-l Paving Co.. Monrovia. Calif., paving:

Adco Electric Co., electric; Arcadia Glass & Mirror Co., Arcadia, glass; Acme Sprinkler Co., sprinklers; Alta-Fraser-Edwards Co.. composition floor: David H. Baer Co.. air conditioning: Blue Diamond Corp.. reinforcing steel; California Insulation Contractors, weather-stripping; California Building Maintenance Co.. building cleaners; Cedar Roofs Co.. Alhambra. roofing; Charles

Two Employees Named

Of Profit Sharing Plan Two employees, Edward T. Davies

of the Los Angeles office and Jerry McLain of the Phoenix office, have been added to the advisory committee for the Webb Company's profit

sharing plan to serve as employee representatives in supplying fellow workers with data on operation of the plan.

Addition of the employee repre

sentatives was recommended by Del E. Webb, company president, at the time the advisory committee was enlarged to include five executives, Mr. Webb, L. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president; R. H. Johnson and J. R. Ashton, vice-presidents, and R. A. Becker, secretary-treasurer. Mr. Becker chairmans the committee.

McLain Davies

Davies, who is chief of operations at the Los Angeles office, and McLain. director of public relations for the company, were selected by vote of fellow employees. Because all participating employees have a vital interest in the company-sponsored program, Davies and McLain are to acquaint themselves with the operation of the plan and its investments, and will attend all advisory committee

meetings.

Cosso. Pasadena, cement contractor; Robert Diehl, San Gabriel, plumbing; Carroll Duncan & Co.. Alhambra. plastering; R. W . Downer & Co., acoustical tile; Electrical

Products Corp., neon sign; Eddie Egan & Associates, asphalt tile; W . P. Fuller & Co., glass; Fernando Valley Insulation Co., North Hollywood, insulation; Garvey Sheet Metal Shop. EI Monte, sheet metal; Jackson Iron Works, Inc.. Bell, Calif., structural steel; Pete King & Son, Phoenix, painting; Modernfold Doors, Inc.. Pasadena, folding

doors; J. A. Powers, Inc.. masonry: L. D. Reeder Co.. acoustic tile; Selectile Company, Inc., ceramic tile; Venetian Terrazzo & Mosaic Co., terrazzo: Mundet Cork Corp., Maywood, freezer insulation: Universal Drywall Co., Whit-tier, drywall; Wahlstrom Bros.. Burbank, swimming pool; Western Iron & Metal Co.. ornamental iron: C. G. Willis & Son, Inc.. grading: O. & G. White. Pomona, landscaping; Strathmore Specialty Co.. Marlite; Arcadia

Arcadia Opening To Star Gobel, Cast

(Continued from Page One) |

The new Arcadia hostelry wel- I corned its first guests late in June. ' It is located on Huntington Drive

(Highway 66) — one of the main arteries into Los Angeles from the East — at the intersection with Colorado

Place, which leads into Pasadena. It has 125 rooms, each with its own automobile parking space and its I

own private veranda wbich overlooks P* the landscaped center court. Archi- 1 tect was Martin Stern, Jr., Beverly '

Hills, Calif. When "Lonesome George" Gobel

brought his television cast to Phoenix

last February to officially open the

new Sahara Hotel, the crowd which turned out for the outdoor show jam-packed the hotel's patio and overflowed into an adjacent street. Thou- j sands of Phoenicians and winter visitors, some of whom arrived hours early, were treated to a double-barreled program presented first on a patio stage and then from a second stage on the street. They laughed that day with Gobel, perky Peggy Young, portly John Scott Trotter and other stars of Gobel's show.

Plenty Of Excitement The Frank Murrays spent three

days in exciting Las Vegas, and saw six of the big shows there, before embarking for a tour of the cooler and more restful climes along the California seacoast. Back on his estimating job in the Phoenix office operations department, Frank voted the two weeks vacation trip well worth while. During an inspection tour of the swank Beverly Hilton Hotel which the Webb Company built in Beverly Hills, Calif., the Murrays ran across Cliff Dean of the Los Angeles office operations department.

Lumber Co., Arcadia, lumber; Gruen Electric, light fixtures; Builders Specialty Co., toilet stalls; Heet Bros. Redwood, Monrovia, fence; Orban Lumber Co., Pasadena, lumber; Aluminum Window Screen Co., Long Beach, aluminum screens; Southern California Sash & Door Co., El Monte, doors and frames; Acme Hardware Co., hardware; The Feldman Co., light fixtures; L & T Sink

Top Co., Rosemead, formica; Electric Tool & Supply Co.. power tools; Barker Brothers Corp.. lobby furniture and kitchen equipment; Arrow Parking Lot Service, parking lot striping; Wood-all, Inc., El Monte, wardrobe doors; Graham Brothers. Inc., El Monte, concrete; Bell Broadcasting Co.. Pasadena, loudspeaker system; Martin Plywood Co.. plywood; Soule Steel Co.. steel casements; Hammond Lumber Co.. East Pasadena, lumber; and Union Oil Co. of California, Pasadena, oil and gasoline.


What A Difference 20 Years Can Make I

1936 Aim

Bob Johnson, job office manager and timekeeper on a Flagstaff, Ariz., college building project 20 years ago.

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Bob Johnson Presented 20-Year Service Pin At Beverly Hilton Dinner The onetime timekeeper who came up through the ranks to become a vice-president of the Del E. Webb

Construction Co., genial Robert H. Johnson, Los Angeles district manager, has been presented a 20-year, diamond-studded service pin upon completion of more than two decades of service.

He was honored at a dinner at the fashionable Beverly Hilton Hotel at which Pres. Del E. Webb pinned on

his lapel the diamond-studded pin modeled after the Webb Company insigne.

A native Arizonan, born in Phoenix in 1916, Vice-President Johnson joined the Webb firm in October, 1935, as a timekeeper and job office manager on a Flagstaff college building project. He was a Phoenix Union High School graduate and had attended a business college before taking up construction work.

Sent to Los Angeles to become district manager of the firm's west coast headquarters in 1944, Bob has since filled that important post. Today the staff he heads is supervising millions of dollars in construction over the nation.

He resides in the beautiful Flint-ridge area near Pasadena with his wife, Maizie; a daughter, Susan, and a son, Larry. His hobbies are movie photography and golf, horseback riding on his own horses, and swimming in the attractive pool in his picturesque back yard.

Bob Johnson, now a Webb Company vice-president and Los Angeles

district manager, receives 20-year service pin from Pres. Del Webb.

Soldier Ernie Returns Home Ernie Griffith, son of Dale Grif

fith of the Los Angeles office, and Ernie's wife, Delores, recently re

turned to their Glendale, Calif., home

from England, where they spent about 15 months of the three years

Ernie served in the U.S. Army. He was attached to the air force, serving

at Sealand Royal Air Force Base in the largest aviation supply depot in

England. Ernie was discharged following his return to the U.S., pur

chased a new Ford in Brooklyn, and

he and Delores enjoyed a leisurely trip across the country.

THE WEBB SPINNER July, 1956

DIRECTORY DEL E.WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO. DHL E.WEBB

• CONSIRUCIIDN

antoHa Del E. Webb, President

L. C. Jacobson, Executive Vice President and General Manager R. A. Becker, Secretary

W. J. Miller, Business Manager R. G. Kenson, Assistant to the President LEGAL AND INVESTMENT DEPARTMENT T. F. Hetherington, Resident Counsel

A. K. Stewart, Jr. J. W. Colachis Grace Harter Arlen Miller



H. E. Boice, Chief of Operations F. S. Murray A. C. Jacobson, Sr. E. W. Flint T. E. Breen O. F. Childress



Kara C. Newell Pearl S. Richardson Geraldine Hampton T. P. Mulkern L. O. Hoeft Gladys Sanders Mary Jane Spandau J. J. Sena Lovie Epling Judy Pooker LOS ANGELES OFFICE


E. T. Davies, Chief of Operations D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager E. H. Smith, Jr. Martha Little Enola Owens Gerald Harris G.A.Anderson R. G. Fleming F. O. Langell Alice Stears Cecil Drinkward M. F. Webb Sallie Tucker C. H. Dean George Shaw Freda McDonald


2201 North Central Ave. Phoenix, Arizona Phone AL 8-4621 Kim Bannister, Job Operations F. L McDowell, Job Superintendent R. T. White, Job Office Manager


CEDAR RAPIDS, IA., OFFICE P. O. Box 1864, 4000 Johnson Rd., N.W. Cedar Rapids, la. Phone 4-0139 J. W. Ford, Mgr. of Job Operations T. O. Gilbreath, Job Superintendent L. D Sanders, Job Engineer J. S. Aubin, Job Office Manager R. C. Boatman, Job Accountant R. L. Reeves Don Bogue J. C. Beckley Virginia Haffner Clyde Pendley Marjorie Hawkins

ARCADIA, CALIF, OFFICE 130 West Huntington Drive Arcadia, Calif. Phone DOuglas 7-3520 Ralph G. Wanless, Job Operations D. J. Kelly, Job Superintendent B. Fladhammer, Job Office Manager

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE Fifth & Boylston Sts. Los Angeles, Calif., Phone MAdison 6-2211 J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer C. F. Kintzi; Job Office Manager Milton Hoope, Job Accountant F. W. Danielson M. M. DeConinck E. B. York G. A. Murray, Jr. Lillian Whitaker W. R. Foeht Mary Somerfeld


19th Ave. and Thomas Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone AL 8-1166



P. O. Box 526 Highway 99W Red Bluff, Calif. Phone 1605 F. P. Kuentz, Mgr of Job Operations Stan Bateman, Job Superintendent M T. Rigg, Job Office Manager G. J. Kennedy, Job Accountant C. T. Powers W. J. Prehn N. A. Hamer







Volume 10 July, 1956 No. 7





EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Del E. Webb L. C. Jacobson R. A. Becker W.J.Miller

Amy Jo Hafford

EDITOR Jerry McLain







Industrial Editors

Sahara Is Impressive Speaking of the new Sahara Motor

Hotel built in Phoenix and partly

owned by the Webb Company, a re

cent editorial in The Arizona Republic concerning a new federal building for the city had this to say: "It isn't

even on the drawing boards yet. but

the proposed federal building will be

the most impressive thing to hit the Phoenix skyline since the Sahara Hotel was erected on North First Street.

(The italics are ours.) The Sahara is

one of four motor hotels built by the

Webb Company within the past two

years for the Flamingo hotel c'~~!

SMILING HOST at the new Flamingo Santa Anita motor hotel in Arcadia, Calif., is Jim Hagle, manager of the 125-room establish

ment.

&fot6dayd The Webb Spinner extends best

wishes to these employees who ob

serve birthday anniversaries during

August:

Fred McDowell, Phoenix Aug. 4

Owen Childress, Phoenix Aug. 15

E. Baird York. L.A Aug. 24

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Vol. 10, No. 8 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, AUGUST, 1956 12 Pages

Construction Work At Street Level On Union Oil Building Work on the $20,000,000 Union

Oil Center project in Los Angeles had reached street level early this month at the east end of the deep, block-square excavation as Del E. Webb Construction Co. workmen prepared for pouring of the lobby floor of the 13-story Home Office Building.

On westward from that point, over a full city block, different stages of construction progress found workmen preparing to pour exterior walls at. some points and forming and pouring different sections of the three levels of the spacious underground garage designed to handle 1,500 cars.

(Continued on Page 5) COMPARING NOTES on progress (above), three of the men who are helping direct construction of the big Union Oil headquarters building in Los Angeles are, from left: Roy C. Nichols, Union Oil Company representative; Neil Drinkward, Webb Company job superintendent, and Bill Brownie, one of the representatives ot the Los Angeles architectural-engineering firm of Pereira & luck-

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ROW UPON ROW ot metal pans are placed to form one of the underground parking level slabs *<-4K around structural steel elevator core in new Union Oil Center. Top ot steel elevator core is

presently at street level.


Maze Of Building Materials Go Into Union Oil Structure

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TYPICAL CROSS SECTION of work under way below street level on new $20,000,000 Union Oil headquarters in Los Angeles is pictured above. Photo shows workmen forming one of structural slabs for underground parking garage, the structural steel elevator core projecting upward to street level, and,^ upper right, the 20-foot shoring necessary in forming and pouring large beams for street

floor.

UNDERGROUND VEHICULAR TUNNEL is pictured (at left) in its first stages of construction. Now being formed in what is a 30-foot open cut, it will permit direct vehicular connection between lower levels of the garage, an auxiliary building at street level a block distant,

and Beaudry Street.


RETAINING OF BANKS of many different types of soil at Union Oil' Center required special treatment in some cases, as, for example, i when a narrow seam of soft, diatom ace ous earth was found to dip " t steeply through part of the site. In photo above the building, rising in 'K~*-" center of excavation, later will itself help support soft earth banks • during further excavation at this point to extend it to its outer gj

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EXTERIOR WALL on east side ot building already has been pushed upward 50 feet and is approaching street level, with gravel back

fill under way.

DWARFED as they stand on floor of excavation. Job Supt. Neil Drinkward and visitors look over special shoring problem on Union OH jobsite. Steel piles were driven and braced, then excavation was completed here to a point 60 feet below street level. Now exterior wall can be erected at this point. With Superintendent Drinkward are P. G. Marks of Phoenix, Webb purchasing agent, and D. E.

Griffith, Los Angeles, assistant business manager.


Miners? On Union Oil Job? Yep, This Was Iheir Task One problem in construction of Los Angeles' height-limit Union Oil Center which Webb Company operations men and engineers were called upon to solve was draining of lower floors of the underground garage, which at its deepest point is almost 70 feet below the adjoining street. The solution — construction below the lowest level of a 420-foot-long drainage pipe to carry gravity flow to a storm sewer on the depressed Harbor Freeway just that distance away. Photos on this page, taken by Baird York, timekeeper and official photographer on the Union Oil project, show work on this drainage line, of which 160 feet had been completed in mid-July. The J*-^ 33-inch pipe is being jacked through the earth as workmen tunnel from the jobsite downhill toward the freeway. TOP — View of jacking pit five stories below street level. The "70" on pipe indicates number of lengths installed, with 54 lengths required to complete job. CENTER — As camera looks into pit, miners are preparing to jack pipe. BOTTOM — in cramped quarters at bottom of jacking pit, Roland Beaulieu and Morris DeConinck, left, "shoot a grade" with transit to determine if pipeline work is progressing on

grade.

Winstons See Grand Canyon H. G. (Speedy) Winston, chief ac

countant for the Webb Company, took his family to the spectacular Grand Canyon for a brief vacation visit and, during an overnight stop in Flagstaff, got so cold that he was almost happy to get back to Phoenix and its warm summer weather. He also gained a clear-cut idea of the costs of traveling these days with a family (he and Marie have three children) when a motel room for one night cost $15.

Weeds in the garden of thought

soon make a man look seedy.

Pines Beckon To Boices Howard Boice, chief of operations

at the Phoenix office, vacationed this summer with his family in the Pay-son-Pine country of Arizona where they relaxed in a pine-surrounded cabin under the Tonto Rim. The kids got a big kick out of fishing for trout

in the east branch of the Verde river, and Howard and the Mrs. enjoyed cool weather and considerable rain.


Regular 'Forest' Of Shoring 'Grows' On Union Oil Project tfirMi A m !

Construction Is At Street Level On 13-Story Union Oil Building


Some 350,000 yards of earth have been moved in creating an excavation 300 by 600 feet, and at its deepest point 74 feet below the existing street. Paved streets line the construction site on all sides.

At several points on the project site where soft earth was encountered, subsurface floors are being constructed to within 25 feet of the walls of the excavation. Then, from the top down, 25-foot-long H-beams

will be placed horizontally every 12 feet from the sides of the excavation to the newly-constructed portion of

the building. Final removal of earth will begin,

with other rows of horizontal H-beams being placed as dirt is removed. When final grade is reached

and walls of the excavation are vertical, outside walls of the building will

be started.

Supt. Neil Drinkward is directing

construction for the Webb Company, with John Fahey as manager of job operations. Pereira and Luckman, Los Angeles, are the architect-engi

neers on the project.

A MAZE OF SHORING is required on the Union Oil job to hold large beams approximately 20 feet in the air. These beams will be part of the lobby floor in the 13-story diamond-shaped Home Office Building at Union Oil Center. BELOW — Another view of construction detail of Home Office portion of structure which will be below street level. There is still another floor below point where men at right are walking. Column being formed for pouring in foreground is one of about 200 column footings of various sizes and shapes resting on anywhere from five to 109 piles which were driven in clusters on about three-foot centers. Driven to a bearing strength of 50 tons, they vary

between 25 and 60 feet long in place.


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OUT OF A BLOCK-SQUARE EXCAVATION on the edge of the downtown Los Angeles business district mushroom the footings and the beginning of the first sub-surface floors of the new $20,000,000 Union Oil Co. west coast headquarters being built

by the Del E. Webb Construction Co.


j And Concrete Form os Angeles Structure

STEEL FRAMEWORK for elevator shaft (center), now to street level, wilt traverse 17 stories in Home Office Building, which will tower 175 feet above ground and overlook bustling downtown Los Angeles.

STURDY COLUMNS stand like sentries along lower floor ot three-story underground garage area af Union Oil Center. Note amount of steel bracing (right) to stabilize bank until exterior wall is in place.

DIAGONAL BRACING is shown in place. Fifty-three pound "H" piles were used to stabilize bank. Building is being set on this same type of

piling, with more than 100 carloads required for project.


Here's Answer To 'Dog Days' Lorraine Greager, Phoenix office

secretary, vacationed at her Chandler home this summer, alternately resting, pulling weeds, making flower beds and building fence. "I should have lived on a ranch," she said of the fence building. "But I had to put up a fence to kfcep my dog inside and the neighbor kids outside. M y dog has one naturally-black eye, and the kids painted it with white enamel."

Couldn't Get Away From It All John Fahey, manager of job oper

ations on the Union Oil Center project in Los Angeles, returned the other day from a vacation rest at home, declaring he "kept wondering most of the time about the job, and how it was progressing."

Gates of Yankee Stadium are open to the New York Giants, who are contemplating quitting the Polo Grounds, Vice-Pres. Del E. Webb of the Yankees told Sportswriter Dan Daniel during a New York visit last month.

Writing in baseball's "bible," The Sporting News, Daniel quoted

Webb: "There is no reason why the

Giants should not move into the Stadium, with its modern facilities, some 65,000 seats, fine parking, and splendid transportation and location."

Daniel said Webb went into detail concerning relations between the Yankees and the Giants, recalling that when the Polo Grounds stands were rebuilt, the Yankees accepted the offer of the Giants to let them play in the Harlem arena.

"Relations between the two clubs are very cordial," continued Webb, "though the Giants did chase the Yankees out of the Polo Grounds and

force Colonel Ruppert and Colonel Huston to build their own park. However, that wasn't Charley Stoneham's fault, but McGraw's. John thought that the Yankees would be forced to build in some out-of-the-way corner

where they would be ignored and for

gotten. He was wrong."

This Trap Was Tough One A recent letter from Ellen Rigg to

Phoenix friends relates how her husband, Milford, who is now job office manager on the Diamond Match project at Red Bluff, Calif., drove 31 miles to play golf at Redding, Calif., where "the course runs from the top

of a hill down to the river bed, and from the last hole they pull the play

ers back up the hill with a rope on pulleys." She also said Rigg "got into the longest darn sandtrap he ever saw — the river bed."

It's just a spring from winter to

summer.

As long as most of our troubles come from things we do ourselves, rather than from things others do to us, we should keep very m u m about them.

Webb's invitation to the Giants, backed by approval of Dan Topping, his partner in the Yankees, and Gen. Mgr. George M. Weiss, opened up afresh the entire question of the destinies of the Giants, their impending move and the attitude of the seven other National League clubs toward a possible shift to Minneapolis, the story states.

Daniel declared Horace Stoneham (Giants' owner) is not planning a move to Minneapolis, where the Giants already operate an American Association club. Such a shift, he adds, would mean loss to the Giants of tremendous gate revenue which comes of the vendetta with the Dodgers, plus the $750,000 they receive from television and radio. Not only would the Minneapolis gate fall short of compensating for such losses, Daniel says, but "it is known that the National League would not permit the Giants to leave New York."

(The Giants for years have conducted spring training activities in

Phoenix, where Webb's construction firm maintains one of its principal

offices, and the Yankee co-owner is a frequent visitor to the Giants' camp.

Webb and Stoneham in 1951 arranged for the Giants and Yankees to swap training camps, and the Yankees trained in Phoenix.)

Timekeeper on Union Oil project

^ Native State:

California; born in Glendale

Birthday: August 24

How did you happen to come to Los

Angeles: A m a native and was reared in the Los Angeles area.

How did you get into construction

and why: Interested in learning the

business as I had been hearing about construction for years from my friends.

Hobby: Photography

Secret ambition: To travel and take travel pictures.

Favorite sport: Football

Family: Parents and wife, Nadine, (an expectant mother).

Eisenhower Thanks Yankees Last fall's good-will tour of Japan

by the New York Yankees, when they were accompanied by Co-Owner Del Webb, recently brought a letter of commendation from President Eisenhower. He wrote to the club, in part:

"I am sure your visit to our men in uniform in the Pacific was a refresh

ing reminder of home, and I am equally sure that to the citizens of Japan your men were not only baseball players of world-wide renown

but also — and this is of major importance — American ambassadors

of great effectiveness. To each member of the Yankee organization who participated in the trip, my sincere

thanks and congratulations on a job well done."

Webb Says Giants Are Welcome To Move

Baseball Headquarters To Yankee Stadium


Sales Zoom As Thousands Of lowans Visit Model Homes In Cedar Hills Development

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VISITORS CAME IN SWARMS. They came, they saw and they seemingly were impressed when the Webb Company opened its new Cedar Hills development in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, late in June. Thousands came from all parts of East Central Iowa to inspect four model homes, and the parade of visitors continued day after day. First home purchaser was John B. Turner, president of the Cedar Rapids Chamber ot Commerce. The first unit in the construction program, consisting of 100 homes, was virtually sold out by mid-July, and a second unit was under way before August I. Overall planning is designed to ultimately provide Cedar Rapids with a complete community of 1,150 homes and shopping facilities representing an investment of more

than $13,000,000.

Anschutz Absorbs Little Star C o m p a n y In Oil-Uranium Merger (Reprinted from The Denver Post)

Merger of the Little Star Uranium Co. (in which a number of Webb Company employees are shareholders) and the Anschutz Drilling Co., an oil firm, has been announced in Denver, Colo.

Officials of the firms said no money was involved in the transaction, which resulted in formation of a new firm operating under the name of Anschutz Drilling Co., which will operate in both oil and mining fields in the Rocky Mountain and Mid-Con

tinent areas.

President of the new firm is Fred B. Anschutz of Denver and Wichita, Kan., head of the old Anschutz Company.

Del E. Webb, co-owner of the New York Yankees baseball team, and

vice-president of the old Little Star firm, is vice-president of the new oil and mining company. Secretary is

Donald S. Stubbs, a Denver lawyer.

"This is a very healthy merger because of the diversification of oil and uranium," Webb said.

Officials reported the merger resulted from a Little Star stockholders meeting in Casper, Wyo. Stockholders approved the proposed merger of Little Star — headed by Lloyd Powers of Casper, head of Powers Elevation service, an oil industry service firm .— with the Anschutz firm.

Final calculations actually still were underway late in July, but it was reported by some officials that the approximate rate of exchange would be 38 shares of Little Star for each share of Anschutz Drilling.

Little Star stock has been selling on the Denver market for between 13 and 15 cents a share. It has in the past sold for 30 to 40 cents.

Anschutz owns a majority interest in the Sanford Production Co., an oil producing company with produc

ing properties in the state of Kansas. That interest will become part of the new firm resulting from the merger, together with other extensive oil holdings.

Maxim Exploration Co. of Denver has been doing some exploration work on Little Star properties under

a previous agreement. This arrangement will not be changed because of the merger, officials said.

Officials of the new firm declared it was their intention to "continue and step up" their oil exploration

program as well as conduct an active mining exploration program on

"properties acquired as a result of the merger with the former Little Star Uranium Co."

Another thing that depresses us is

what kind of homes the homemade

pies you buy downtown must come

from.


Simplify Runway Building Neil Drinkward, Webb Company

job superintendent on the Union Oil project in Los Angeles, is credited in the July 26 issue of Engineering News-Record with helping develop a bracket which simplifies the job of building runway trestles for concrete

buggies. The brackets are said to be rack-free, simple to assemble, and easily knocked down when not in use. Additionally, it is a very simple matter to exchange legs, depending on the necessities of the job.

Del Webb Given Watch The insatiable baseball appetite of

Denver, Colo., fans produced for the Mile High City an all-time record diamond crowd the night of July 16 when 19,769 fans — more than 20,000 counting free loaders — saw their beloved Denver Bears whip the American Association All-Stars, 10 to 8, in the league's 14th all-star game. And in pre-game ceremonies American Association All-Star watches were presented to Gov. Ed Johnson of Colorado, Mayor Will Nicholson of Denver and Del E. Webb, co-owner of the New York Yankees.

'Twas A Grape Feast A lug of fine Thompson Seedless

grapes was presented to employees of the Phoenix office early last month by Tom Breen, manager of the Webb Company housing department, when marketing of grapes was started from 40 acres he has in production. And, indicative of the "green thumb" possessed by housing department employees, Secretary Evelyn Martin brought in the first cucumber from her more modest garden.

This One Didn't Get Away The George Granthams vacationed

in Northern Arizona this summer, visiting George's former home in Kingman, and spending some time in Flagstaff and colorful Oak Creek Can

yon. There four-year-old Gray Grantham caught his first trout, an 11-

incher, and brought it home to deposit it in the deep freeze and save

for display when friends visited his home.

Japanese Look Over

Match Co. Project Japanese touring the U.S. under government supervision continued to show up on Webb Company projects last month, with the newest group — executives and scientists from the Japanese lumber industry — visiting

on July 11 at the Red Bluff, Calif., site of the $15,000,000 Diamond Match forest products plant.

Leslie A. White of the International Cooperation Administration in Washington, D.C, who is traveling with the Japanese, said purpose of their U.S. tour is to acquaint them with American techniques in lumbering, manufacturing and research.

Earlier a group of Japanese con

tractors visited Phoenix and Los Angeles offices of the Webb Company. They heard from Pres. Webb a brief summary of Webb Company construction methods and an outline of building work over the nation. They inspected some Phoenix work and, on the west coast, were taken on a tour of the Webb Company's $20,-000,000 Union Oil Center project in downtown Los Angeles by Dale Griffith, assistant business manager at Los Angeles.

Subsequently, while in the East, the Japanese builders were luncheon

guests of Mr. Webb and also enjoyed a New York Yankee baseball game in Yankee Stadium.

Letters of appreciation arrived from the Japanese soon after their return home. Sadao Nakade, manager of Takenaka Komuten, Co., Ltd., wrote to Mr. Webb from Osaka that "It was a pleasure to receive the Webb Spinner you kindly send (sic) me, reporting our recent visit to your company, which will surely remind me the wonderful experience we had together with you, which I won't forget for a long time. To watch a baseball match at the Yankee Stadium in New York was a delight; I enjoyed every minute of it. x x x"

Yoshishige Ohbayashi of Ohbaya-shi-Gumi, Ltd., wrote to Mr. Webb from Nagoya that "the trip was

made very informative and encouraging through your kind and proper guidance, x x x x I like to thank you for your arrangement of having Messrs. W . J. Miller and H. E. Boice to give explanation and information on management and your invitation to witness the official ball game at Yankee Stadium on 1st May. Mr. Edwin B. Fisher had shown us the facility of the stadium and were given the luncheon. I had also visited your Los Angeles office and I was able to see Mr. D. E. Griffith for further explanation on management and he had also shown us your Union Oil job site which gave me quite a reference."

ORIENTAL VISITORS. The 71 fop executives and scientists of the Japanese lumbering industry stand with officials of Diamond Match, Del E. Webb Construction Co. and Southwestern Engineering Co. beside construction office on the $15,000,000 Red Bluff Diamond Match plantsite just before beginning a recent tour of principal lumbering areas of the U.S. The visit fo Red Bluff was the first phase ot the Japanese group's U.S. government-sponsored tour. In center background are Stan Bateman, job superintendent, and Fred Kuentz, manager of job

operations.


gDi4UK&*td tytrfUtte Directors and officials of Diamond Match Co. and Del f. Webb Construction Co. recently inspected the Red Bluff, Calif., jobsite where Webb Company workmen are JL erecting a $15,000,000 infe- f grated forest products plant for Diamond Match. The group, headed by Pres. Robert Fairburn ot Diamond and Pres. Del E. Webb of the construction firm,.. "M > * expressed satisfaction with job progress after viewing initial stages ot the industrial project. Pictured at right are Mr. Webb and tour of Diamond's officials, Peter Berkey, a director; Earl Bechard, divisional manager; Bert Martin, a director, and President

Fairburn.

CONSTRUCTION PARLEYS. Diamond's officials joined Webb Company representatives, headed by Mr. Webb and Vice-President J. R. Ashton from Phoenix, at the project site (ABOVE, LEFT) after touring sawmills and timber holdings. Also pictured in center of group are Stan Bateman, Webb Co. job superintendent (wearing light hat), and Fred Kuentz, manager of job operations (bareheaded, talking with Mr. Webb). ABOVE, RIGHT — This informal conference on a sunshiny summer morning involves, from left. Presidents Fairburn and Webb,

Director Martin and Manager Bechard.

LOOKING THINGS OVER. Diamond's board of directors and management (ABOVE, LEFT) toured the firm's lumber holdings before visiting construction site. ABOVE, RIGHT — Director Peter Berkey and Harold Crane, who directs Diamond's molded pulp operations, discuss features of a model in the Webb Company's jobsite office

of the new multi-million dollar integrated forest products plant.



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A. K. Stewart, Jr Grace Harter


T. F. Hetherington, Resident Counsel J. W. Colachis Arlen Miller


J. R. Ashton, Vice President and District Manager H. E. Boice, Chief of Operations F. S. Murray A. C. Jacobson, Sr. E. W. Flint T. E. Breen O. F. Childress



Kara C. Newell Pearl S. Richardson Geraldine Hampton T. P. Mulkern L. O. Hoeft Gladys Sanders Mary Jane Spandau J. J. Sena Lovie Epling Judy Pooker LOS ANGELES OFFICE


JE. T. Davies, Chief of Operations D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager E. H. Smith, Jr. Martha Little Enola Owens Gerald Harris G. A. Anderson R. G. Fleming F. O. LangeM Alice Stears Cecil Drinkward M. F. Webb Sallie Tucker C. H. Dean George Shaw Freda McDonald


2201 North Central Ave. Phoenix, Arizona Phone AL 8-4621 Kim Bannister, Job Operations F. L McDowell, Job Superintendent R, T. White, Job Office Manager


T. G. Austin, Job Office Manager CEDAR RAPIDS, IA., OFFICE

P. O. Box 1864, 4000 Johnson Rd., N.W. Cedar Rapids, la. Phone 4-0139 J. W. Ford, Mgr. of Job Operations T. O. Gilbreath, Job Superintendent L. D Sandsrs, Job Engineer J. S. Aubin, Job Office Manager R. C. Boatman, Job Accountant R. L. Reeves Don Bogue J. C. Beckley Virginia Haffner Clyde Pendley Marjorie Hawkins

ARCADIA, CALIF., OFFICE 130 West Huntington Drive Arcadia, Calif. Phone DOuglas 7-3520 Ralph G. Wanless, Job Operations D. J. Kelly, Job Superintendent B. Fladhammer, Job Office Manager

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE Fifth & Boylston Sts. Los Angeles, Calif., Phone MAdison 6-2211 J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer C. F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager Milton Hoppe, Job Accountant F. W. Danielson M. M. DeConinck E. B. York G. A. Murray, Jr. Lillian Whitaker W. R. Foeht Mary Somerfeld

PHOENIX, ARIZ, OFFICE

19th Ave. and Thomas Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone AL 8-1166 J. W. Meeker, Job Operations C. L. Edwards, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager J. P. Hayden L. F. Press


P. O. Box 526 Highway 99W Red Bluff, Calif. Phone 1605 F. P. Kuentz, Mgr of Job Operations Stan Bateman, Job Superintendent M T. Rigg, Job Office Manager G. J. Kennedy, Job Accountant C. T. Powers W. J. Prehn N. A. Hamer


4330 Moraga St. P. O. Box 9396 San Diego 9, Calif. Phone BRoadway 3-6234 R. C. Hinton, Job Operations J. N. McPhee, Job Superintendent P. D. Clouthier, Job Office Manager C. J. Daniel


13th Ave. 4 Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone CRestwood 4-5828


Seemed Like Fantasy Land Alice Murdoch, housing depart

ment secretary, vacationed this sum

mer in Phoenix except for a three-day trip with relatives to Las Vegas, her first visit to the Nevada gambling

and entertainment capital. She saw a

couple of shows, was amazed at the

beauty of the luxury hotels on the

"strip" and marveled at the money which changed hands across the gaming tables.

A good way to practice the development of will power is keep from doing anything about a mosquito

Volume 10 August, 1956 No. 8







Jerry McLain







Industrial Editors

Congratulations from the Webb

Spinner to these Webb Company em

ployees who will observe birthdays

during September:

Fred Kuentz, Red Bluff Sept. 14

Alice Murdoch, Phoenix Sept. 14

Rose Romano, Phoenix Sept. 20

Pop Jacobson Gets Around It was peaceful in Wisconsin for

vacationing A. C. (Pop) Jacobson of the Phoenix office operations department after that baseball debacle he sat through in Chicago where the Chisox trounced his beloved Yankees four in a row. Pop visited his sister, Mrs. Mabel Luis, at Marshfield, saw a mink farm during a 100-mile tour which took him also to many scenic Wisconsin areas, and then headed homeward via Denver, Colo. In the Mile High City he was taken in hand by Robert L. Howsam, president and general manager of the Denver Bears, and saw the American Association team win two and lose two games.

He found the Denver stadium "a big bowl in the earth," counted 70 steps from the rim to the floor of the box seats at the edge of the playing field,

and reported "You could see the game nicely from any seat, top to bottom." Back in Phoenix he termed

Vol. 10, No. 9 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, SEPTEMBER, 1956 8 Pages

READY, ACTION f While television and news cameramen swing into action, Mike Robinson of Flamingo Hotel chain wields a shovel and Gen. Mgr. L. C. Jacobson of Webb Company swings a pick in official ground-breaking for new multi-million dollar motor hotel in Phoenix. Looking on are, from left: H. E. Boice, chief of operations; Tom Hetherington, Webb Company attorney, and Walter Pritchett, job superintendent. Cameramen are, from left: Chuck Warren, KPHO-TV; Ralph

Camping, Arizona Republic, and Ralph Painter, KOOL-TV.

New 200-Room Phoenix Hiway House Is First Of 50 Hotels Planned

As construction began in mid-August on a new 250-room motor hotel for Phoenix, plans were announced by Managing Director Mike Robinson of the Flamingo Hotels corporation for a multi-million dollar chain of 50 hostelries to be built by the Del E. Webb Construction Co. across much of the nation.

Headquarters for the chain, which will be owned and operated by a corporation separate from the Flamingo Hotels, will be at the new motor hotel now being built at 32nd and Van Buren Streets in Phoenix.

Six to eight motor hotels will be built in Arizona, and others will be


San Diego Housing Tops $11,000,000 On what was a barren mesa only five years ago but today is a "village within a city" with a population of 35,000 persons, the Del E. Webb Construction Co. has in 28 months erected more than $11,000,000 in new homes.

This is the Clairemont Estates project, still mushrooming as a new part of San Diego on the rolling

Southern California hills just above Mission Beach, overlooking the blue Pacific. The homes, and the necessary community facilities, have been a joint venture of the Webb Company and the Aldon Construction Co. of Bellflower, an outstanding Southern California house building organiza-


INSPECTION TOUR. On Clairemont project at San Diego, Calif., Supt. J. N. McPhee, second from left, discusses house building progress with (from left) R. C. Hinton, manager of job operations; R. H. Johnson, Webb Company vice-president and Los Angeles manager, and P. G. Marks,

company purchasing agent.


These Are Typical Homes In Clairemont Project At San Diego


Landscaping Ideas Shown Home Purchasers Fifteen Different Designs Offered In San Diego Homes

Homes being built by the Webb Company in the multi-million dollar Clairemont Estates project at San Diego, Calif., all have three bedrooms and two baths, and are of attractive

and modern design.

Exteriors are varied, with 15 different elevations offered purchasers.

These contain a variety of features, such as pot shelves, shutters, porch baffles and railings, and garage door ornamentation.

Grounds around the houses are planted and homes are turned over to purchasers with growing lawns. Yards are also landscaped with shrubs and trees, and are served by adequate concrete walks and driveways. As a plus factor the houses also contain other features which add to their desirability and safety such as retaining walls, bank planting and protective lawn fences.

Garages in connection with the houses provide for two cars and storage space. There are modern built-in features in the kitchen consisting of gas cooking tops and ovens, range hood and fan, and garbage disposals. The interior decor of the houses includes hardwood paneling in the living rooms, fireplaces with antique brick and slumpstone facing, and the popular large sliding glass door opening onto the patio.

Walls are painted in modern decorator colors with harmonizing tile and hardwood parquet flooring. Bedrooms are equipped with large wardrobe closets with full height sliding doors. Heating in all homes is through a forced air system with thermostat control, a feature found generally only in custom-built houses.

Bathrooms are heated electrically.

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Imagine His Surprise! Paul Marks, Webb Company pur

chasing agent, wondering about the

stomach "cramps" which had been

bothering him, went to his doctor

the other day to get the answer. He

got it, promptly — appendicitis. And

iust as promptly — that evening, in

fact — they operated. Paul spent

several days in Good Samaritan Hos

pital, and a brief convalescence be

fore reporting back for duty.

Dobbs Sees Union Oil Job Bernis Dobbs, service and main

tenance man at the Phoenix office, took his family vacationing this sum

mer to Las Vegas, Nev., and then to Los Angeles and San Diego, where they visited Disneyland, Long Beach and the beaches, Del Mar and the races, and other scenic spots. Dobbs also looked over the company's Union Oil construction project in Los Angeles, and came back to work with

a jaunty sportsman's cap which he wears on the job.

Donna Hurt In Crackup Donna Warriner, wife of Bill War

riner, assistant business manager, rolled her classy Ford coupe into Central Avenue at Phoenix one fore

noon last month and was involved in an unfortunate crackup with a utility firm's service truck. Donna went to the hospital with a painful but not serious ankle injury, con

sidering herself mighty fortunate at having escaped more serious hurts, and the car went to the garage for

several hundred dollars in repairs.

THE WEBB SPINNER September, 1956 A

Clairemont Estates Project Mushrooms On Rolling Hills Near Busy San Diego

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AIR VIEW shows progressive construction steps in newest Clairemont Estates unit ot 161 homes due

for completion in November.

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OFFICE STAFF tor Webb Company on housing project is headed by P. D. Clouthier, job office manager and engineer, pictured (on left) conferring with C.

J. Daniel, timekeeper.

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^ September, 1956 THE WEBB SPINNER Page 5

CITY-SIZE DEVELOPMENT. The sweeping vista spread out below the photographer who made this aerial picture is Clairemont Estates, a new part of San Diego which in five seemingly short years has become almost a "city within a city". Here the Webb Company in 28 months has constructed more than $11,000,000 in new homes as a joint venture

with Aldon Construction Co.

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,»onf housing are directed by Job te carpentry foremen, (from left) lenny Giles.

GETTING DOWN TO BARE FACTS in this jobsite parley are, (from left) Superintendent McPhee, Bruce Hazard of R. E. Hazard Contracting Co., subcontractor for grading, paving and underground utilities, and Harry Langworthy, a Hazard

Company superintendent.


Webb Co. Crews Push Work On Diamond's Pulp Plant

PHOENIX TOWERS construction was on the upswing in mid-August, with the second floor slab poured and reinforced concrete supporting columns for the third floor in place Meanwhile, excavation had been completed for the underground garage to flank the 14-story apartments structure on two sides, with footings poured and sidewalls under construction.

View is from the below-ground garage area.

Though He Found So Much To Live For, Death Ended Ronnie's Courageous Fight herself was handicapped, which held

forth the hope of entry into business in a small stationery and gift shop, and which almost at once enabled Mr. Jacobson to visit friends at their homes; to propel himself about the yard of his new home; in fact, to travel anyplace his wheel chair might take him.

But at a friend's home the night of Aug. 8 the wheel chair tipped on an incline, and he was pitched to the ground. He treated almost lightly the resulting head injury, joked with his doctor while X-rays were taken at a hospital, and was prevailed upon to remain overnight under observation only because he admitted to a slight headache. But in the early morning hours he slipped into a coma and quickly died of a brain hemorrhage.

Ronnie Jacobson was the son of A. C. (Pop) Jacobson of the Webb Company operations department, and a brother of L. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president and general manager. Another brother, A. C. Jr., resides in San Manuel, and a sister, Mrs. E. B. Brooks, in Tucson. Funeral services were held Aug. 11 in Phoenix and

interment was in Greenwood Memor

ial Park.

As a youth of 18, Ronald F. (Ronnie) Jacobson went to bed with what proved crippling arthritis, and for more than 25 years lay flat on his back, able to move his arms and head, but unable to turn his body on either side or lift himself.

Cheerful despite the narrow world to which his helplessness confined him, Ronnie Jacobson dreamed and hoped and prayed for the day when he might again sit upright, and begin anew a more normal life. After a quarter century, his courage was rewarded. A delicate operation in which both legs were amputated enabled him, upon recovery, to lift himself into an upright position in a wheel chair.

So, at 45, a whole new world unfolded for him; a world which promised marriage with a sweetheart who

Warriners Building Home Home ownership among Webb

Company folks gets another boost with the Bill Warriners now building

in the company's Camelback Village subdivision at Phoenix. And Johnny Meeker, operations man on the Village project, also is planning a new home for his family there.

AT RED BLUFF, CALIF., where the Webb Company is building a $15,000,000 forest products plant tor Diamond Match Co., reinforcing steel is placed (above) in one hy-dropulper pit ot the big molded plup plant. Sump pit is in back

ground.

WORKMEN THEN SET template for anchor bolts in the hydropulper pit. Besides molded pulp plant, which will first produce egg cartons, Webb men currently are erecting the finished storage and

shipping department.

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TILT-UP. This operation at Red Bfuff shows workmen preparing casting beds for tilt-up panels to

go info molded pulp plant.

Flints Visit West Coast The Gene Flint family vacationed

in the San Francisco Bay area and on the beaches near Los Angeles this summer before Gene reported back on the job in the Phoenix Office operations department.

September, 1 956 THE WEBB SPINNER Page 7

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IF YOU LIVE IN CALIFORNIA, build a home like Jack McPhee and wife, Artia, did (above) at Del Mar. Jack is one ot the Webb Company's veteran job superintendents, and he and Artia did much of the work themselves on this pretty hillside home, which has two bdrooms and den, spacious living room, outdoor roofed patio with barbecue, and a kitchen designed to fulfill a housewife's dream. The view from the veranda above the garage is westward across the shimmering Pacific Ocean only a couple of blocks distant. That's Jack and the Mrs. standing in front.

IN PHOENIX, you can keep cool by simply installing in the back yard a pretty swimming pool like this one, the pride of Mary Jane Spandau, an accounting department employee at the Webb Company, and her husband, Arty. On edge of pool the hot August afternoon this photo was taken were Gladys Sanders, Johnny Laberski and the George Granthams, while the Spandaus relaxed in back

ground.

NATIONWIDE MOTOR HOTEL CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM SET

Webb Company's San Diego Housing Tops $11,000,000

(Continued from Page 1) don which produces about 3,000 new homes per year. And of the 161 homes now being

pushed toward early November completion as the newest unit in the vast Clairemont development, more than 60 per cent already have been sold.

All construction has been handled

by the Webb Company, with house design, financing and sales the task of the Aldon firm. In charge of overall land planning and procurement is Burgener & Tavares of La Jolla, Calif., and the success of this organization as land planners is attested by the fact that growth of Clairemont to "city size" has been so rapid.

Construction activities have been directed by R. H. Johnson, vice-president in charge of the Webb Company's Los Angeles office, and his chief of operations, Edward T. Davies. They were assisted by J. N. McPhee, job superintendent; R. C. Hinton, manager of job operations; P. D. Clouthier, job office manager and engineer, and C. J. Daniel, timekeeper. Mr. McPhee has handled large housing projects for the Webb Company at Tucson, Phoenix and Amarillo, Tex.

Aldon personnel on the project included the late Donald Metz, who handled financing details; Willard Woodrow, assisted by William Phelps, house design, and Ira Oberndorfer,

sales.

Contributing to success of the project has been the effort of the Clair Burgener organization in handling

actual sales. Its program is headed by Joe Suffudy, assisted by Clark Beaumont and Helen Young. Selection of colors and decorations by home purchasers was directed by Mrs. Frances Gardner. And buyers served by this organization have referred many other new prospective

purchasers.

In conjunction with the home building, Webb Company crews also constructed utilities and streets neces-ary to make the houses usable. Utili

ties consisted of a sewer system, water distribution system, and storm drains for adequate street drainage. Streets were asphalt paved in accordance



spotted across the nation "from Tennessee to Oregon", Robinson an

nounced. The Webb Company will acquire an ownership interest in each through the construction program.

All will be known as HiwayHouse, and all will be built of similar Colonial design, although those across the nation will be smaller than the new Phoenix HiwayHouse, generally averaging 30 to 40 units each.

Robinson said present plans call for new motels in Flagstaff, Williams,

Kingman, Gila Bend, Casa Grande, Tucson, Yuma and Globe or the Bis-bee-Douglas area in Arizona,. Joining

Robinson in financing the new chain will be his Flamingo associates, including Mortimer M. Levin, Ezar F.

Ressman and Marion Isbell, all of

Chicago.

The new Phoenix hotel will boast

a 500x500-foot landscaped patio

which will be decorated with old-

fashioned gas lights, park benches,

water fountains, and even a narrow-

gauge railroad to entertain kiddies.


— DIRECTORY DEL E.WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO.

VEl E.WEBB

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Grace Harter PHOENIX OFFICE


H. E. Boice, Chief of Operations F. S. Murray A. C. Jacobson, T. E. Breen O. F. Childress


W. A. Warriner, Assistant Business Manager H. G. Winston Kara C. Newell P. G. Marks Pearl S. Richardson J. L. Morton Geraldine Hampton J. P. McLain T. P. Mulkern Rosa M. Kort L. O. Hoeft Rose Romano Gladys Sanders Amv Jo Hafford Mary Jane Spandau G. G. Grantham J. J. Sena

Lovie Epling Judy Pooker


R. H. Johnson, Vice President and District Manager E. T. Davies, Chief of Operations D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager E. H. Smith, Jr. Martha Little Enola Owens Gerald Harris G. A. Anderson R. G. Fleming F. O. Langell Alice Stears Cecil Drinkward R. G. Wanless M. F. Webb Sallie Tucker C. H. Dean George Shaw Freda McDonald PHOENIX, ARIZ , OFFICE

2201 North Central Ave. Phoenix, Arizona Phone AL 8-4621 Kim Bannister, Job Operations F. L McDowell, Job Superintendent R. T. White, Job Office Manager


T. G. Austin, Job Office Manager CEDAR RAPIDS, IA., OFFICE P. O. Box 1864, 4000 Johnson Rd., N.W. Cedar Rapids, la. Phone 4-0139

J. W. Ford, Mgr. of Job Operations T. O. Gilbreath, Job Superintendent L. D Sanders. Job Engineer J. S. Aubin, Job Office Manager R. C. Boatman, Job Accountant R. L. Reeves Don Bogue J. C. Beckley Virginia Haffner Clyde Pendley Marjorie Hawkins

PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFICE 32nd St. and East Van Buren Phoenix, Arizona.

E. W. Flint, Job Operations W. E. Pritchett, Job Superintendent D. L. Kauffman, Job Office Manager

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE Fifth 4 Boylston Sts. Los Angeles, Calif.. Phone MAdison 6-2211 J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer C. F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager Milton Hoope, Job Accountant F. W. Danielson D. J. Kelley, Sr. M. M. DeConinck E. 8. York G. A. Murray, Jr. Lillian Whitaker W. R. Foeht Mary Somerfeld

B. Ftadhammer

PHOENIX, ARIZ., OFFIC*

19th Ave. and Thomas Rd. Phoenix. Arizona Phone AL 8-1166



P. O. Box 526 Highway 99W Red Bluff, Catif. Phone 1605 F. P. Kuentz, Mgr of Job Operations Stan Bateman, Job Superintendent M T. Rigg, Job Office Manager G. J. Kennedy, Job Accountant C. T. Powers Wilma Prehn N. A. Hamer


4330 Moraga St. P. O. Box 9396 San Diego 9, Calif. Phone BRoadway 3-6234 R. C. Hinton, Job Operations J. N. McPhee, Job Superintendent P. D. Clouthier, Job Office Manager C. J. Daniel


13th Ave. & Camelback Rd. Phoenix. Arizona Phone CRestwood 4-5828


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Not that the materials were any The people who keep on sawing

better, but ice cream was so much „,„rtj • „n 1 • J t «.L .I wood in all kinds ot weather are the

more healthful in the old times on ac-count of the two hours' hard turning o n e s w h o h a v e the largest woodpiles of the crank. at the end of the season.

Published by the DEI E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO.




EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Del E. Webb L. C. Jacobson R. A. Becker W. J.Miller





CIRCULATION MANAGER Kara Caroline (Casey) Newel!

Msmber Society of Associated Industrial Editors


Industrial Editors

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^Oit&dtUfA Even Ye Editor admits another anniversary is arriving and lists himself among the group to whom the

Webb Spinner this month extends congratulations because they will observe birthdays during October. They are:

W . A. Warriner, Phoenix Oct. 9 Tom Rittenhouse, Phoenix Oct. 12 William R. Foeht, L.A Oct. 15 Gladys Sanders, Phoenix Oct. 16 Edwin H. Smith, L.A Oct. 19 G. A. Anderson, L.A Oct. 28 Jerry McLain, Phoenix Oct. 29

Webb Company's San Diego Housing Tops $11,000,000 (Continued from Page 7)

with standard practice of the City of San Diego, and equipped with curb, gutter and concrete sidewalks.

In order to make a complete home site it also was necessary for the Webb Company to construct and im

prove a shopping center, a school

site and church site. At the beginning

of the project it was necessary to

erect a market building to house a

supermarket and drug store to service

the first residents, and recently the

developers constructed a paved ac

cess road to one of the major ar

terial streets to provide suitable ac

cess to other parts of San Diego.

Vol. 10, No. 10 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, OCTOBER, 1956 8 Pages

Webb Co. Starts Site Work For Texas Company Building Excavation for a new multi-million

dollar height-limit Texas Company building on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles was started during September by the Del E. Webb Construc

tion Co. James T. Wood, Jr., Texas Com

pany vice-president, said the new structure to rise at the southwest corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Catalina Street will be his firm's headquarters for the eight western states. The Webb Company already has

under construction the $20,000,000 height-limit Union Oil Center at Fifth

and Boylston Streets, on the western edge of the Los Angeles downtown business district.

R. H. Johnson, Webb Company vice-president and Los Angeles manager, and E. T. Davies, his chief of operations, are overseeing the initial excavation and foundation work on the Texas Company project. M. D. Stevens is job superintendent.

The attractive new building was designed by Welton Becket, F.A.I.A., and Associates of Los Angeles, the same firm which handled design and


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ARCHITECT'S CONCEPTION of Texas Company's modern new western states headquarters building in Los Angeles, on which Webb Company now has site work underway. Structure was designed by Welton Becket and Associates, Los Angeles.

Large Audience Sees Gobel Star In Show At Newest Flamingo Probably the fanciest, flossiest official opening ceremony ever accorded a new motor hotel even in the magical Southern California realm of Hollywood attracted a large and enthusiastic audience to the beautiful Flamingo Santa Anita Motor Hotel on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 26.

Residents from communities throughout the San Gabriel Valley converged on the city of Arcadia and its Fabulous Flamingo to enjoy an outdoor entertainment program

headed up by George Gobel of film and television fame, and including such well-knowns in the entertainment world as "Tennessee Ernie" Ford and John Scott Trotter.

Since the plush Santa Anita hostelry — just across the boulevard from Santa Anita racetrack — is another of the Flamingo chain con

structed by the Webb Company, a sizeable group of construction firm officials and employees were on hand for the ceremonies.

They included, from Phoenix, L. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president and general manager, accompanied by Mrs. Jacobson; W . J. Miller, business manager, and Mrs. Miller; T. F. Hetherington, Webb Company counsel, and Mrs. Hetherington; P. G.

Marks, J. W . Colachis and Jerry McLain, and, from the Los Angeles headquarters, R. H. Johnson, vice-president and Los Angeles office manager, and Mrs. Johnson and daughter, Susie; Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Smith,

Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Baird York. Hal J. Webb, a brother of Pres. Del E. Webb, and Mrs. Hal Webb also attended.

I (Continued on Page 7)


For the City-the Motel-Type Hotel

Reports City Motel-Type Hostelries Are Competing Successfully With Hotels

The story of hotels designed for a motorized clientele was a feature of the August 11 issue of Business Week, an internationally-recognized business magazine, and much of the article and all of its pictures were from the Flamingo Hotels system in which the Webb Company today is the builder and a major investor.

"Motelmen," says Business Week, "think the car-at-the-door convenience of their setup, and the option of bypassing bellhops and other expensive hotel services, will take the motoring public almost entirely out of the downtown hotel — and to some extent of the resort hotel."

In a section of its three-page article titled "Flamboyant Flamingos", Business Week had this to say:

"Like most other motel operators, the Merit System (which operates the Flamingo) frowns on structures higher than two or three stories. Higher than that, construction costs rise sharply and you must install elevators (the Sahara in Phoenix has a couple of self-service elevators in its four-story section).

"Then, too, motel people say, the accessibility of the automobile is the greatest advantage of a motel over a hotel. Outside the door, or down a flight of stairs, it serves as a portable storage closet; buried in a hotel garage, it takes time and tips to become accessible to the guest.

"The Flamingo motels, as most of

the chain are named, also feature the luxuries of resort hotels: swimming pools, children's playgrounds, putting

greens, shuffleboard and other games for the adults. The dining terrace al-

ALMOST THREE PAGES of its August 11 issue was devoted by Business Week to an article on the new motel-type hotel now being built in U.S. cities, such as the Sahara at Phoenix.

ways overlooks the swimming pool and is a popular place for a drink.

"For the businessman, there are conference rooms and suites with bars and kitchens. For the family, there are children's menus, rosters of baby sitters, rooms specially fitted out for children, with furniture scaled down in size. Rooms have phones and, usually, television sets.

"Making T h e m Pay — Merit's hotel-motels range from 75 to 200 rooms, with 200 considered the optimum size. Whenever possible, the chain buys an entire city block, using three sides for motel units, with parking space on the outside and swimming pool and other recreation facilities on the inside of the "U". Sometimes, as in the Sahara in Phoenix, shops and motel units close the

fourth side. "Even where the site is expensive,

the operators say they can make money on a two- or three-story unit in the city because:

"1. — Construction costs are low, through standardization and prefab-

rication. All Merit motor hotels have basically the same design, worked out by Managing Director Michael Robinson.

"2. — Maintenance costs are proportionately low.

"3. — A 200-room Flamingo motel can be staffed by about one-third as many employees as the conventional 15-story hotel. The new Arcadia Flamingo has a staff of 50.

"These savings leave room for

more lavish landscaping — this cost at Arcadia alone came to $30,000 — and for profits out of which more units can be built. Merit Hotel System has been able to expand chiefly on retained earnings and depreciation write-offs.

"The chain completed five Flamingos in the past year. Last year, with 10 units operating, it grossed $7.5-million. The occupancy rate swung between 8 5 % and 9 0 % — about the same as first-class big-city hotels and far above the average for the general run of motels.

"Backing — The Merit System is owned by a syndicate that was organized by Robinson. The owners include Del E. Webb, contractor and

part-owner of the New York Yankees; Mortimer Levin and Ezra Ress-man, attorneys; L. C. Jacobson, Webb's partner and general manager; Marion Isbell, president of the National Rastaurant Owners Assn.; George Gobel, T V and movie actor; Max Sherman, and Robinson himself.

"Now that the Merit chain is running well, Robinson is concentrating on a bigger project with the same cast of investors. It will be a nationwide expansion of the idea under another name, aiming at something like 50 motor hotels.

"Robinson says the innovations

and traveler services that are featured in the Merit Hotel System are 'just the beginning.'

" 'In the new chain,' he says, 'we'll have some real eye-openers.' "


Flamingo Opening Features Gobel

RIBBON CUTTING. Flanked by Webb Company officials, George Gobel ot television and film fame uses southpaw stroke to snip ribbon and officially open the beautiful new Flamingo Motor Hotel at Arcadia, Calif. Beside Gobel, in photo above, stand his real-lite wife, Alice, and at her side is R. H. Johnson, Webb Company vice-president and Los Angeles manager. On Gobcl's left are L. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president and general manager of the Webb Company, and Mike Robinson, managing director of the Flamingo Hotel Chain. PHOTO AT RIGHT — "Lonesome George" trades quips at formal opening program with television star "Tennessee Ernie" Ford.

THE WEBB SPINNER October, 1 956

'Jla+tei&me Qeon^e.' Waistrt JlatieAamz At An<cadia:

Throng Enjoys Sparkling Entertainment Progn

Flamingo Santa Anita Motor Hotel Is Formal

WISE-CRACKING George Gobel had the crowd with him as he joked and sang at show presented in spacious pretentious Flamingo Santa Anita Motor Hotel across from Santa Anita racetrack at Arcadia, Calif.

GEORGE GOBEL HUMOR: "... so this fella says to me, 'George, would you rather kiss a woman in real life, or in your dreams?' . . . 'Well, now, / got to admit you usually meet a lot better class of women in your dreams!' "

LIVELY SONG AND DANCE numbers were other features ot the Flamingo program, presented in bright afternoon sunshine.

>ld formal opening of ONCE OFF STAGE, Gobel was kept busy signing autographs for enthusiastic young fans.


Flamingo's Official Opening Attracts Hotel And Construction Company Representatives

WEBB COMPANY PERSONNEL attending the Arcadia opening ceremonies for the Flamingo Santa Anita Hotel included those in group pictured above, from left: Paul Marks, Mrs. Jim Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Baird York, Mrs. Ed Smith, Ed Smith, and Jim Miller, and (standing, in background) R. H. Johnson, T. F. Hetherington, Susie Johnson, Bob's daughter, and L. C. Jacobson. Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Hetherington and Mrs Jacobson also were on hand, as were Mr. and Mrs. Hal J. Webb. AT RIGHT - Poolside at the Flamingo the day before the ceremonies, this group includes, clockwise, from right: L. C. Jacobson and Ezra Ressman, Flamingo stockholders; Mrs. Jacobson, Mrs. Fred Beadle and Mr. Beadle, visitors from Phoenix, and Marion Isbell, Chicago, another Flamingo stockholder.

HOTEL OFFICIALS on hand for the inaugural program included two Chicago law partners, Mortimer M. Levin and Ezra F. Ressman, who with George Gobef are stockholders in the Flamingo chain of hotels. Pictured, from left, are Mr. and Mrs. Levin, Mr. and Mrs. Gobel, Miss Charlotte Growe of Chicago and Mr. Ressman.


S«<}ye4tio*u S>u«ty &146 /tuwicU Walls Rising At Pulp Plant A field engineer and a Phoenix office secretary were named the initial winners of cash awards offered by the Webb Company for the most valuable suggestions of employes which are designed to improve efficiency and decrease costs in general operations. Fritz W. Danielson, engineer on

the Union Oil Center project in Los Angeles, received a $25 cash award, and Evelyn Martin, Phoenix secre-

ifil Martin Danielson

tary, was awarded $10, it was announced by L. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president and general manager.

Danielson's suggestion was for a time-saving index in a field instruction book to assist in account distribution. This idea is to be incorporated in the first revision of the instructions.

Miss Martin's suggestion concerned a method of routing memorandums among company personnel to decrease the number of copies of each memo required, thus creating savings in materials, time, and filing space. Her suggestion will be reviewed by management at its fall meeting.

Among a number of other employe suggestions placed in the suggestion boxes, quite a few had merit, but did not appear practical for the Webb Company's type of operation. Suggestions are continuously welcome, Mr. Jacobson said,' and if sufficient continue to be received, awards will be made monthly.

Basement walls were being formed and poured in late August on the molded pulp unit at Red Bluff, Calif., where Webb Company crews are erecting a $15,000,000 forest products manufacturing plant tor Diamond Match.

Gobel And 'Tennessee Ernie' Ford Highlight Flamingo Opening (Continued from Page 1)

Gobel himself was an amiable master of ceremonies, introducing each act and at intervals yodeling a song, strumming a guitar, or keeping up a running line of banter. As he presented "Tennessee Ernie" the singer looked about him at the spacious patio of the newest Flamingo hotel and cracked, "Say, this place sure would hold a lot of hay!" One of Gobel's best crowd-pleasers

was his rendition of "The Bullfight

Fans All Yelled Olay, When the Bull Ripped Hernando's Hideaway." Other featured acts were by Betty Duncan, pretty vocalist, and The Hey-dens, a fine dance team.

Gobel is a stockholder in the new motor hotel, along with Webb Company officials, Mike Robinson, managing director of the Flamingo chain; Mortimer Levin and Ezra Ressman, Chicago attorneys; and two other Chicagoans, Max Sherman and Marion Isbell.

Maze of reinforcing steel goes into walls. Openings are for dryer pits.

Tilt-up panel being moved into position on one of Diamond Match buildings.

SUMMER CAMP. Capt. Grace K. Harter, in civilian life the secretary to Tom Hetherington in the legal and investment department at the Webb Company's Phoenix office, recently underwent two weeks of active military duty at the Armored Training Center, Camp Irwin, Calif., where she was secretary of the Phoenix U. S. Army Reserve School. She and her staff handled the "paper work" of 40 officers from Arizona, California, New Mexico and Washington who were taking the armored training courses. She is pictured with Col. Asa G. Atwater, school commandant, and SFC Donald H. Rounds, unit sergeant-major.—(U.S. Army Photograph.)

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mL. AA-View of the basement area under construction in the pulp plant at Red Bluff. Design of big industrial plant is by Southwestern Engineering- Co. of Los Angeles.



CONSTRUCTION





Grace Harter Joyce Coffey PHOENIX OFFICE

302 South 23rd Avenue, P. O. Box 4066, Phoenix. Arizona, Phone ALpine 8-7441 J. R Ashton, Vice President and District Manager

H E. Boice, Chief of Operations F. S. Murray A. C. Jacobson, Sr. T. E. Breen O. F. Childress

T. L. Rittenhouse Bobby Spaulding Alice Murdoch Evelyn Martin

W. A. Warriner, Assistant Business Manager -H. G. Winston P. G. Marks J. L. Morton J. P. McLain Rosa M. Kort Rose Romano Amy Jo Hafford G. G. Grantham

Kara C. Newell Pearl S. Richardson T. P. Mulkern L. O. Hoeft Gladys Sanders Mary Jane Spandsu J. J. Sena Lovie Epling Judy Pooker LOS ANGELES OFFICE


E. T. Davies, Chief of Operations D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager E. H. Smith, Jr. Martha Little Enola Owens Gerald Harris Cecil Drinkward R. G. Fleming F. O. Langell Alice Stears C. H. Dean R. G. Wanless M. F. Webb Sallie Tucker

George Shaw Freda McDonald LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE Fifth & Boylston Sts. Los Angeles, Calif., Phone MAdison 6-2211 J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer C. F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager Milton Hoppe, Job Accountant F. W. Danielson D. J. Kelley, Sr. M. M. DeConinck E. B. York W. R. Foeht Lillian Whitaker

Mary Somerfeld LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE Wilshire Blvd. & Catalina Street Los Angeles, Calif. Phone DUnkirk 5-3456 M. D. Stevens, Job Superintendent B. Fladhammer, Job Office Manager

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA., OFFICE P. O. Box 1864, 4000 Johnson Rd., N.W. Cedar Rapids, la. Phone 4-0139 J. W. Ford, Mgr. of Job Operations T. O. Gilbreath, Job Superintendent L. D Sanders, Job Engineer J. S. Aubin, Job Office Manager R. C. Boatman, Job Accountant R. L. Reeves Don Bogue J. C. Beckley Virginia Haffner Clyde Pendley

CULVER CITY, CALIF., OFFICE 11720 Florence Avenue Culver City, Calif. Phone TExas 0-1724, EXmont 8-5247 G. A. Murray, Jr., Job Superintendent. R. T. White, Job Office Manager



PHOENIX, ARIZ , OFFICE 2201 North Central Ave. Phoenix, Arizona Phone AL 8-4621 Kim Bannister, Job Operations F. L McDowell, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

PHOENIX, ARIZONA., OFFICE 32nd St. and East Van Buren Phoenix, Arizona. Phone BRidge 5-9361


PHOENIX, ARIZONA., OFFICE 19th Ave. and Thomas Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone AL 8-1166

J. W. Marker, Job Operations C. L. Edwards, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager J. P. Hayden L. F. Press

PHOENIX, ARIZONA., OFFICE 13th Ave. & Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone CRestwood 4-5828

J. W. Meeker, Job Operations W. L. Richards, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

RED BLUFF, CALIF, OFFICE P. O. Box 526 Highway 99W Red Bluff, Calif. Phone 1605 F. P. Kuentz, Mgr of Job Operations Stan Bateman, Job Superintendent M T. Rigg, Job Office Manager G. J. Kennedy, Job Accountant C. T. Powers Wilma Prehn N. A. Hamer


T. G. Austin, Job Office Manager Webb Co. Starts Site Work For Texas Company Building


engineering on the luxurious $17,-000,000 Beverly Hilton Hotel recently

completed by the Webb Company in

Beverly Hills. Completion of the

structure is slated early in 1958. It

will house Texas Company offices cur

rently at 929-939 South Broadway

and at 315 West Ninth Street.

Volume 10 October, 1956 No. 10





EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Del E. Webb L. C. Jacobson R.A.Becker W.J.Miller








Industrial Editors

^fot&d<Uf& Birthday anniversaries will be observed during November by some of the Webb Company's best-known ''old-timers", and to each sincere congratulations are extended by the Webb Spinner. They include:

W. J. Miller, Phoenix Nov. 2

L. C. Jacobson, Phoenix..Nov. 6

H. G. Winston, Phoenix..Nov. 11

Cecil Drinkward, L.A Nov. 13

Jack McPhee, San Diego.Nov. 27

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They Knew The Line Del Webb, who's no stranger to radio and television, popped up on a late-August Sunday evening with New York Yankees partner Dan Topping on TV's "What's M y Line". They fooled blindfolded panel members for a time, but soon after the panelists identified the Bomber owners with baseball, they had 'em correctly tabbed as owners of the fabulous Yanks.

Southern California Trek Bobby Spaulding, Phoenix office secretary, and son. Mark, toured

Southern California on vacation this summer while Bobby's daughter, Toni. attended a church conference

at Lake Tahoe. They visited friends and relatives in San Diego, Los Angeles and Blythe.

Vol. 10, No. 11 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, NOVEMBER, 1956 16 Pages

Webb Co. Crews Begin Converting Hughes Facilities A multi-million dollar construction program to convert spacious manufacturing facilities into laboratories and offices for scientists has been started by the Del E. Webb Construction Co. at the Culver City, Calif., headquarters of Hughes Aircraft Company, one of the nation's largest electronics research and manufacturing firms. This represents the newest phase in

millions of dollars in construction the Webb Company has performed for Industrialist Howard Hughes, including erection at Tucson of a modern guided missile manufacturing plant and expansion in 1951 of the Hughes facilities at Culver City from which U. S. fighter planes have been getting an-elaborate "electronic brain" which is actually a "seek-find-and-kill" firing control system. The newest expansion of Culver


FAME BECKONS. They say the odds against him were 76,000 to 1. But Don Larsen had just pitched the first perfect game in World Series history. "I don't even remember throwing the last pitch," said Don as Yankee Co-Owner Del Webb extended congratulations and sportswriters crowded around with questions. — (Other World Series photos and stories on Pages

14 and 15.)

EXPANSION PROGRAM at Hughes Aircraft Company's main plant in Culver City, Calif., to provide new facilities for engineers and scientists — beginning in building pictured above — calls for Webb Company crews to construct mezzanine and second floors, install concrete and asphalt tile floor, and partition huge new interior area into office and

laboratory space.

Laying Of Union Oil Center Cornerstone Highlights Program On Construction Site The cornerstone for the new $20

million Union Oil Center,, which the Webb Company is building on a site

overlooking downtown Los Angeles, was laid in simple but impressive cere

monies October 17, the 66th anniversary of the founding of Union Oil Company.

Reese H. Taylor, Union Oil's board chairman, unveiling a handsome

plaque carrying a message from form

er President Herbert Hoover on the American system of free enterprise,

termed his firm's new headquarters structure "a building that freedom built."

Pres. Del E. Webb was among a

score or more business, civic, govern

ment, industrial and religious leaders

who were honor guests. Webb Company construction men also supervised

much of the advance planning and preparation to facilitate handling more

than 1,000 guests at the busy construction site, and there wasn't a mishap to mar the program.

Backdrop for the ceremonies, presented from a platform draped in Union Oil's royal purple, was the steel

framework for the first six floors of

one wing of the huge diamond-shaped home office building. From its five-

acre site just to the west and above the

Harbor freeway, it will tower above

all other downtown Los Angeles



No Hey To This Situation:

Z>e£ 70<M, OK latide Jloo6i*ty Out,

^ Tttyfo 7Von& *%cu lU PioMem* It was long past dinnertime, and

darkness had descended on the Webb Company's Phoenix headquarters except in the office of Pres. Del E. Webb where lights burned brightly as he and his executive vice-president, L. C. Jacobson, conferred on details of their construction operations.

Noting it was after 8 p.m., Mr. Jacobson suggested calling it a day so he could join his family at a late dinner. They could, he offered, resume their conference early next morning, preferably before start of the workday at 8 a.m. But Mr. Webb demurred; this time he'd prefer concluding their discussion without waiting until morning.

It was quite late when Mr. Jacobson departed, locking the lobby door behind. Mr. Webb continued briefly at his desk, then picked up his brief case, switched off the lights, and headed for his car at the front of the office. He got only as far as the lobby's big glass front doors.

They were locked . . . and he discovered, to his dismay, he had no key.

President Webb pondered a moment. Janitors long since had finished their cleanup work and departed. No telling how long it might be until the night watchman would appear on his pei iodic visits. Webb knew he could, on the nearest telephone, summon an employee to unlock the doors. But, because of the lateness of the hour, or not wishing to wait for someone to come from home, he decided against that.

He walked to a rear door of the

office, found he could handily unlock it from the inside, and step into the clear, cool night air in the construction company yard. He walked around the building to the front. All across the front of the yard, from each side of the building, stretched a high steel wire fence, topped with strands of barbed wire, to keep intruders out. Undaunted, the six-foot, four-inch contractor decided to climb over at one of the gates.

Webb never made it. Barbed wire snagged and tore his trousers; almost impaled him at the fence top.

Discouraged, he dropped back on the inside and ruefully surveyed his suit.

(Meanwhile, Mr. Jacobson, relaxing at home after a leisurely dinner. began getting telephone calls from distant associates who had been trying to contact Mr. Webb. All Jacobson could say was that he had left him at the office, but he did offer to try and locate him so he could accept the calls.)

Back inside the building, Mr. Webb surveyed windows in his office of the executive wing facing the street. He found he could open any one of several, but could see that ornamental shrubbery outside the windows would make it difficult if not impossible to get out. He went into his secretary's adjoining office, located a window outside which the shrubbery didn't appear to formidable, opened the window and pushed the screen outward.

Then he crawled over a filing cabinet and head first through the 16-inch-

ESCAPE PROOF. Pres. Del Webb himself discovered just how "escape proof" is this barbed-wire-topped fence at the Webb Company's Phoenix office. That's Gladys Sanders, five foot nine, of the accounting department, standing beside it to indicate its height. Arrow at left indicates window of executive wing which Mr. Webb turned into a new

type exit.

Ike's Visit Finds President And Dei Webb As 'Neighbors'

When President Eisenhower visited Los Angeles for an October 19 campaign address in Hollywood Bowl, he occupied the swank Presidential Suite on the seventh floor of the fashionable Beverly Hilton Hotel, which the Webb Company built. Hotel employees serving the President were screened, and all guests on the seventh floor, including some permanent residents, had to move to other rooms — except one. Contractor Del Webb. A personal friend of the President. Webb was permitted by secret service men to remain in the suite he occupies permanently. And Eisenhower dropped in during his Beverly Hilton sojourn to admire the view from Webb's private terrace.

wide, 24-inch-high opening. But he wasn't half way out before he was stuck. He backed into the office.

Next he tried it feet first, and this time he made it — through shrubbery and all, dragging his brief case behind. But it was a disheveled construction company executive who headed for a very late dinner.

Thirty minutes, or perhaps it was nearly an hour later that Mr. Jacob-son finally located him by telephone. to exclaim: "Why, Del, I've been trying to contact you for more than an hour "

"Well," interrupted Mr. Webb, "I'm not very happy with you, Jake. Tell me what you did when you left the office tonight!"

Puzzled. Mr. Jacobson told of driving to his home, dining, and then receiving the telephone calls for

Webb. "No," said Webb, "that's not what

I mean . . . what did you do when you walked out of the office building?"

"Well," replied Jacobson, searching his memory to try to recollect something he might have done which was wrong, "I just locked the door, got in my car "

"That's what I mean." broke in Webb. "You see. I didn't realize it when you left, but I didn't have a key. I was locked in, and (explaining the trouble he had encountered) I began to think I was going to have to spend the night there. Fact is, I thought for awhile you might have been trying to keep me in there so I'd be on hand for that early-morning conference you were talking about."


Webb Company Converting Hughes Aircraft Facilities

(Continued from Page 1) City facilities is intended to enable" Hughes to maintain or even step up the pace which saw his firm — with more than $200 million in government contracts — ranked 12th among 100 U. S. corporations in 1955 national defense contract volume. The Culver City work includes con

verting a present large mezzanine floor into a complete second floor and combining presently separately-numbered 6, 7, 8 and 9 buildings into one large building which will contain more than a quarter-million square feet of office and laboratory area. This will con: solidate engineering activities in one area and provide Hughes engineers and scientists with the finest of facilities. The second floor, when completed,

will provide a total of 100,000 square feet, doubling present capacity and fully and most economically utilizing all space. Some 750 tons of steel will go into the conversion project, with steel requirements and design being handled by E. G. Ballou, Hughes plant facilities engineer, and his staff. Gil Murray, Jr., is job superintend

ent and R. T. White is job office manager for the Webb Company. The project is being supervised by R. H. Johnson, vice-president, and E. T. Davies, chief of operations, at the Los Angeles office. For Hughes the entire project is

under the supervision of W . L. Daniel, Jr., manager of plant engineering. Hughes personnel handling details of the conversion program include Norman Garton, assistant manager of plant engineering; John Lillard, plant liaison engineer, and Walter G. Sutton, head of facilities planning.

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WITH EXCAVATION for basement and footings speedily completed, driving of steel piling to anchor the new height-limit Texas Oil Company building on its Wilshire Boulevard site in Los Angeles was started last month. Pictured above, conferring in foreground at jobsite, are E. T. Davies, (right), Webb chief of operations at Los Angeles, and M. D. Stevens, job superintendent on Texas site work. PHOTO BELOW shows a bird's eye view of the site, which is adjacent to the swank Ambassador Hotel, at the southwest corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Catalina Street. Completed structure will be Texas Company's head

quarters for the eight western states.

STEEL PILING mushrooms on Texas Oil Company office building site

in Los Angeles.

Giant Cake Marks Anniversary A giant cake 16 feet long and 71/2

feet wide was cut by Phoenix Mayor Jack Williams and distributed to shoppers at Uptown Plaza, the huge shopping center which the Webb Com

pany built and owns at Central Avenue

and Camelback, as Plaza merchants

celebrated their first anniversary Sept.

19. The big cake, weighing 3,200

pounds, was a replica of the entire

shopping center.

THE WEBB SPINNER November, 1 9i

Phoenix Hiway House Hotel Shaping Up

WINTER VISITORS, TAKE NOTE! Things were humming when these pictures were made in mid-October at site of new 250-room Hiway House Motor Hotel now mushrooming at 32nd and Van Buren Streets in Phoenix as first of 50 Hiway House hostelries to be built by Webb Company across much of nation. This one is due for completion about mid-December in preparation for influx of winter visitors to Phoenix. View ABOVE looks across what will become part ot interior of spacious administration building. In background are some of the one-story units. In foreground, at plans table, Gene Flint, job operations man on the project, confers with Walter Pritchett, job superintendent. BELOW, looking down one wing where everything was in readiness for erection of concrete block walls. One and two-story wings will enclose landscaped patio with colorful swimming pool and other recreational features.

Landscape Near Red Bluff Changes As Webb Co. Crew Push Work On Lumber Plant

In the little Northern Californi community of Red Bluff, where the even boast parking meters for horses construction of a multi-million dolla Diamond Match Company integratei forest products factory by Webb Com pany workmen is creating consider able change in the landscape.

A 40-acre log pond which will hole 131.000.000 gallons of water has beei carved out in huge earth-moving oper ations, walls are up and roof construe tion is underway on the molded pulj plant, a storage and shipping ware house for finished lumber is rising and laying of 13,000 feet of railroac spur is under way.

The pulp plant section of Diamond'; $15,000,000 facilities is slated to gc into operation early next year, turn ing out egg cartons, picnic plates anc fiber food-tainer trays from waste paper, and providing new jobs anc healthy payrolls for Red Bluff folks that eventually will total $2.500.00( annually, or more.

The molded pulp building will contain almost 300.000 square feet in its first floor and basement, and though it is only part of the sprawling foresl products plant its cost will be aboul $6,000,000 without machinery and equipment. Construction is tilt-uj; walls and concrete exterior columns. steel roof truss and steel interior columns, and insulation on wood sheathing with built-up roof. Indoor railroad spurs on both sides of the building will permit all-weather loading.


Marks Attends Convention Paul G. Marks of Phoenix, Webb Company purchasing agent, represented the company at the tenth

Paci fie- In term oun tain Purchasing

Agents' convention in San Francisco

Sept. 21-23, at which the 1957 fall

Pacific Intermountain Conference of t Purchasing Agents was awarded to Phoenix. Some 400 to 500 delegates and their wives will attend. Paul, currently vice-president of the Arizona association, is slated to be next year's president and thus the No. 1 host at the convention.

CRANE NOtSTS into position and workmen erect top tilt-up panels above window openings on Diamond's molded pulp plant. Timbers serve as strongbacks to hold panel in position until column is

poured.


Graphic Air View Shows Interior Of Diamond's Rising Pulp Plant

BIRD'S EYE VIEW looks into the heart of the big molded pulp building which Webb Company workmen are erecting as part of a new multi-million dollar forest products plant for Diamond Match Co. at Red Bluff, Calif. This building is so spacious that all the stores and all the warehouse area in two shopping centers the size of Uptown Plaza at Phoenix would not fill it. Into the structure is going 8,000 yards of concrete and 750 tons of structural steel. At left in photo is raw storage department, next area is basement and tile stock chests, upper center part of building will be for egg carton manufacture, lower center for picnic plate and food tainer manufacture, and area at right is for finished goods storage. Entire structure is designed and being built for easy expansion in any direction.—(Air Photo by Tom Walker for Bayles Studio, Red Bluff).

ARCHITECT'S DRAWING shows how Diamond Match AIR VIEW of Diamond Match plantsite on October 1, plant will look when completed. Arrow indicates when photo at top of page was taken, shows how pulp building which is shown in aerial construction molded pulp building, despite its size, is dwarfed by

photo above. overall area of project.


Cedar Rapids Housing Project Pictured From Air

NEW IOWA HOUSING is pictured in this September air view of the Webb Company's Cedar Hills development in Cedar Rapids. Designed to relieve housing shortage created by new and expanding industry in the Iowa city, the project is being pushed to complete as many homes as possible before frigid winter weather slows operations. Six model homes and Webb Company yard are shown in upper right corner of photo. Construction on the project is proceeding toward lower right of

photo.

Diamond's Huge Plant Will Bolster Red Bluff Economy

(Continued from Page 4) As presently being constructed the

molded pulp plant will employ 265 men and 93 women, while an expanded version would employ 500 men and 185 women.

Virtually completed at the project site is a vast earth-moving and excavation task, involving 500,000 yards of earth, which created not only the 40-acre log pond but also a 20-acre effluent pond for purification of waste water, and dams to retain the water to be pumped into the ponds.

Southern Pacific railroad workers are laying 6,000 feet of siding parallel to its main line, which is adjacent to the plant, and on two of these tracks the railroad will leave empty cars for the Diamond Match yard and pick up loaded cars when the factory goes into operation. Webb Company crews are responsible for building spurs from the siding to maintenance and machine shop and boiler plant area, to the loading shed, the pulp products division, and to an unloading dock where a 50-ton crane will unload a carload of logs in one operation.

Logs will arrive by truck as well as by train, and enough logs can be stored in the large pond in the timber harvest season to keep the plant in continuous operation. Two tugs will operate on the pond to move logs to the sawmill.

Once the plant is in full operation. its mill will handle approximately 85.000.000 board feet of lumber annually and the pulp plant will have an initial rated capacity of 30.000 tons a year. Wood residuals and waste will

DURING VISIT to Diamond Match project site, W. A. Warriner, (center), assistant business manager from the Phoenix office, looks over a model of the new forest products plant while Fred Kuentz, (left), manager of job operations, and Stan Bateman, job superin

tendent, explain its features.

be converted into molded fiber products. That part of the log which doesn't go out as finished lumber will go into manufacture of pulp and pulp products, with bark and sawdust used to generate steam for the kilns, heating system and the pulp manufacturing process.

You're Who? The Owner? After this Mike Robinson, manag

ing director of the Flamingo Hotel chain and a business associate of Webb Company officials, probably will see to it that he's introduced around on motor hotel construction jobs he wishes to visit — at least, if he plans nighttime visits. The reason? Mike dropped around the other evening to the construction site of the new Hiway House Hotel at 32nd and Van Buren Streets in Phoenix. Next morning the Webb Company received this memorandum from its nighttime police patrolman at the project site: "Checked a Mr. Robinson entering the project in a car. His identification looked OK." Probably a good thing Mike had some identification!

Magazine Features Sahara The Sahara Motor Hotel built at

Phoenix by the W e b b Company, which also is a major stockholder in the hostelry, is featured in a two-page "spread" in the August issue of Institutions Magazine, titled "Why Invest in a Block of Luxury?" The article begins: "What would induce a group of businessmen to invest five million dollars in a business as unique as a motel located in the heart of a bustling city? In the case of the Sahara Motor Hotel, Phoenix. Ariz., the investors believed that if you give the tourist what he wants — a combination of relaxation and excitement in one luxurious setting — the institution will be a success." The article is profusely illustrated with Sahara photos.

Dorothy Is On Mend Dorothy Meeker, wife of Johnny

Meeker, operations man with the housing department at the Phoenix office, is convalescing after undergo

ing a minor operation early last month.


Jobsite Ceremony Celebrates Union Oil's 66th Birthday

AT DEDICATORY PROGRAM a corps of Union Oil Minute Men, nattily-attired in white shirts and blue trousers, welcomed guests to Union Oil Center, handled parking of automobiles (upper left photo), and distributed programs. Webb Company men (upper right photo) who helped prepare construction site for ceremonies receive souvenir programs from Minute Man Robert Brunete. They are (from left), John J. Fahey, manager of job operations; Edward T. Davies, chief of operations at the los Angeles office; Neil Drinkward, job superintendent, and R. H. Johnson, vice-president and Los Angeles district manager.

SALUTE TO WORKERS. Pres. A. C. Rubel, at rostrum on speakers' platform in upper left, paid trobute to legion of loyal Union Oil employees, including 76 who as speciai guests at the ceremonies were honored for 35 years or more of service apiece.

THE WEBB SPINNER November, 1 95

/4 Sywriklo^ ^cedam... Workmen in overalls, men in business suits and fashionably-dressed feminine guests stood shoulder to shoulder in a setting of towering skeleton steel framework and tons of poured concrete as the "building that freedom built," the massive Union Oil Center

• which the Webb Company is erecting in Los Angeles, was dedicated October 17, the 66th anniversary of the founding of Union Oil Company. Construction workers watched and listened from vantage points on huge cranes, and men and women of the Union Oil family and their guests — more than 1,000 persons — perched on platforms or sat on bleachers placed in what will become part ot the spacious lobby area in

the finished structure.


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ADMIRING CORNERSTONE PLAQUE, which carries a message from former President Herbert Hoover on America's free enterprise system, are (from left), A. C. Rubel, president, and Reese H. Taylor, chairman of the board of Union Oil; Contractor Del E. Webb, president of the Webb Company, and William Pereira of Pereira and Luckman, the

architectural engineering firm on the construction project.

UNVEILING of the cornerstone plaque came during address ot Board Chairman Reese Taylor, pictured at rostrum. Within the cornerstone, in a niche just befow the plaque, he placed a box containing a draft of his firm's history, copies of that day's Los Angeles newspaper, and a handsome bound volume containing signatures of Union Oil's 9,000

employees.


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Laying Of Union Oil Cornerstone Highlights Program On Construction Site (Continued from Page 1)

buildings because of its hilltop location. "This structure," said Mr. Taylor,

"is an expression of faith in this community and the West, where we have grown up together. But most of all it is a symbol of our free, competitive system which has brought the greatest social, economic and moral benefits in the history of mandkind."

Inscribed on the silver plaque set in black marble of the cornerstone was this message from Mr. Hoover:

"The American way of life is based

on representative government and persona] liberty. The Union Oil Company

of California is a magnificent demonstration of the product of this system.

"But there are many enemies of this

system and many encroachments upon it in our midst. No one can say that

when the documents of this cornerstone are opened, some time in the distant future, that this system will still prevail. But if it does, it will be

because of the determination of men

like those who head the Union Oil Company to maintain our system of free enterprise and the American way of life."

Wielding a trowel, Mr. Taylor sealed into a cornerstone niche a

strongbox containing congratulatory

telegrams from Vice-Pres. Richard Nixon, Gov. Goodwin J. Knight and others, daily newspapers, photographs of the site before construction began and or architecht's renderings of the completed structure, and a book

signed by Union Oil's 9,000 employees.

In addressing Union Oil employees

and various distinguished guests, Mr. Taylor followed in theme the words of the former President when he de

clared: "We must not let the glib talkers inside and outside our country delude us with promises of an easy

world where decisions are made for us—and slaves are made of us.

"We must have economic freedom if we will have personal freedom. W e cannot give up a portion of our HlWtv

and save our freedom. For if a man cannot speak his sincere convictions, or the press cannot report the truth without fear or favor, our economic and personal freedoms have little chance of survival.

"We want a continuation of a growing, prospering America where the individual is important, where life and

the pursuit of happiness are one with

liberty and where freedom builds buildings such as this."

A. C. Rubel, Union Oil president, speaking on "66 Years Young," paid

tribute to his firm's legion of employees, including 76 who were in at

tendance as honor guests because of

35 or more years apiece in service.

Appearing with the two executives

on the speakers' platform were Lt. Gov. Harold J. Powers, Mayor Nor-

ris Poulson, W. L. Stewart, Jr., Union

Oil vice-chairman, and the Rt. Rev.

Francis Eric Bloy, bishop of the Los

Angeles diocese, who delivered the K^no/-li^f:««

November, 1 956 THE WEBB SPINNER Page 1 1

Steel Framework For Height-Limit Structure Pushed Skyward At Union Oil Center

NOW EMERGING from one of the largest office building construction sites ever dug in the West is the steel superstructure of the $20 million Union Oil Center in Los Anqeles. Pictured is the first six floors of steel erected on one wing of the 13-story, diamond-shaped, height-limit Home Office Building which will look down across busy Harbor Freeway on downtown Los Angeles. Webb Company workmen trucked from the site more than 500,000 cubic yards of dirt before constructing steel and concrete foundations.

UNDERGROUND. Huge, high-ceilinged room on first level below ground at Union Oil Center, pictured above, will house cooling and heating equipment, elevator and other machinery necessary to serve the

towering office structure.

VISITORS. Two members ot the Webb Company's Phoenix office staff, W. A. Warriner, left, assistant business manager, and H. G. Winston, right, chief accountant, look over Union Oil project in company

of C. F. Kintzi, job office manager.


% Stochkold&il Anschutz Drilling Co. of Denver,

successor by merger to Little Star Uranium Co. in which a number of Webb Company employees were investors, is anticipating gross income of $4,000,000 per year, and oil and gas operations as well as drilling operations "have progressed satisfactorily," according to a Sept. 27 report to stockholders.

Signed by Pres. Fred B. Anschutz and Senior Vice-Pres. Del E. Webb, the report, in substance, follows:

"Your management is now pleased to announce that in August three discovery wells were brought in on Kansas properties in which the Company has an interest. Each of these discoveries gives the Company an interest in a small oil field with several additional development locations for drilling. In addition to the discovery wells, three development wells were also brought in, two in Kansas and one in Colorado. These wells will add substantially to the income of the many other oil producing properties of your Company.

"The exploration program of your Company for the remainder of the year, for which funds are allocated, includes a participation in the drilling of 11 wells in the Rocky Mountain area, and approximately 10 wells in Kansas. The Rocky Mountain activities are wildcat operations designed to discover relatively large oil reserves. In addition to the exploration wells to be drilled in Kansas, the Company expects to drill approximately five development wells. Management wishes to stress to stockholders that drilling on leases in which the Company has an interest is conducted only

Phoenix Towers Apartments Begin To Tower

PHOENIX TOWERS, the 14-story apartment structure being erected by the Webb Company in Arizona's capitol city, was beginning to tower in early October, when this photo was made. With construction pushed above the towering palms bordering North Central Avenue, the project now daily attracts the attention ot thousands ot passersby. In right foreground Kim Bannister, operations man on the project, chats with

Job Supt. Fred McDowell.

on properties deemed to offer a better than average chance of success.

"Our 14 drilling riggs, 13 of which are rotary rigs, are engaged in drilling operations at the present time. Most of these rigs are drilling under contract for others and contracts for the services of many of them should carry

into 1957. Many of the contracts are

with major oil companies. One rig is

operating in Kansas, three in Colora-

OFFICERS of the Anschutz Drilling Co., pictured during a recent business parley in Denver, are (from left) Donald S. Stubbs, secretary; Del E. Webb, vice-president, and Fred B. Anschutz, president.

do, five in Wyoming, four in Montana, and one in North Dakota.

"Shipments of uranium are being made from two of the Company's uranium properties. The mining department is planning its exploration program to obtain best possible use of funds allocated, with a view to elimination of any properties that do not appear to give a reasonable chance for strikes, prior to the time when additional expenditures become due. Construction of the uranium processing mill located approximately 40 miles west of Moab, Utah, has been suspended. Management is considering the proper disposition of this mill.

"Your Board of Directors is of the opinion that the Company is rapidly rounding into an excellently formed organization and is progressing with the assimilation problems connected with the various mergers. It is regretted that audited financial statements are not yet available but it can be

said that, apparently, gross income is

at the annual rate of approximately $4,000,000."

November, 1956 THE WEBB SPINNER

Vacationing In Comfort While its a bit late to be talking of

summer vacation trips, we can't skip mention of the travels of the Ed

Smiths. Ed, an estimator at the Los

Angeles office, rented a 16-foot house

trailer, loaded aboard the Missus, his

daughter. Beverly, and son, Robert.

who had just finished boot training

and was awaiting a Seabee assignment as a construction electrician. They

camped out with the trailer during

2.000 miles of sightseeing in Northern

California and the Northwest.

More Flamingo Hotels Two new luxury motor hotels rep

resenting an investment of several million dollars are to be built in the

Los Angeles-Hollywood area for the Flamingo Hotel chain, in which the

Webb Company is a stockholder. One is to be located on Airport Blvd. near Los Angeles International Airport.

The other will be at 1934 North High

land in Hollywood, just south of

Hollywood Bowl and within walking distance of Hollywood Boulevard.

Both hostelries will be leased to the Flamingo chain by owners and

builders.

WINTERIZED. Chilly weather will hold no fears for Kara (Casey) Newell of the Phoenix office. She's pictured modeling a beautiful coral and white sweater jacket, the first she ever created with a pair of knitting needles. It represents two months of spare-time activity.

Ve^^0^7H^.^%ci^Sa<UeH4,70M^.^o^ Sadness enveloped the entire Webb

Company organization with receipt of the tragic news Sept. 20 from Rochester, Minn., that Mrs. Louise Griffith, wife of Dale E. Griffith, assistant business manager at the Los Angeles office, had lost her valiant and long fight for life.

Mrs. Griffith, 43, had been in failing health several years. A native Ari-zonan, the daughter of John and the late Effie Telford of Mesa, she attended elementary and high school in Mesa and a business college in Phoenix. She and Dale were married in Mesa and lived for some years in Phoenix be-> fore moving to Glendale, Calif., in 1944 to make their home when Dale was assigned to the Los Angeles staff.

Impressive funeral services were held Sept. 26 at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills. There were many beautiful floral offerings although the family had suggested that, in lieu of flowers, memorial funds could be sent to Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts in Glendale, since Louise was very active in work in both organizations until her

failing health restricted such activity.

Besides her husband Louise is survived by a son, Ernie, who with his wife, Delores, recently returned to the U. S. from England after being discharged from military duty; her father, John; stepmother, Anna, both of Mesa, and three brothers, Dr. William H. Telford of Mesa, Emery A. Telford of Haiti, and Clark D. Telford of Glendale.

N e w Kind Of Labor What happens to Webb Company

laborers when they quit construction work? Well, at least one of them is going to West Point. He's young William McLaughlin of Los Angeles, who was an employee on the Beverly Hilton Hotel project at Beverly Hills, Calif. The son of George McLaughlin. production administrator for the architectural-engineering firm of John Graham and Company of Seattle, Wash., the young man received an appointment in June and is hard at work at the Academy.

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^>0lt6,d4,U4 Congratulations on the approach of

another anniversary are extended by the Webb Spinner this month to some of the fine folks at our Los Angeles office who will observe birthdays during December. They include:

Cliff Dean, Los Angeles Dec. 2 Dale Griffith, Los Angeles Dec. 3 Ralph Wanless, Los Angeles....Dec. 17 Alice Stears, Los Angeles Dec. 28

Yes Sir, It IS Possible It's a B O Y for Rosanne and Jerry

McLain, who had almost given up, 'tis said, after getting three girls in a row. James Paul McLain, tipping the beam at seven pounds, five ounces, arrived Oct. 21 at Good Samaritan Hospital and, with both mother and dad. is reported doing fine. He joins Susan, 5; Pamela, 3, and Jeri Lynn. 2. in the McLain household.

And Pop Is Fond Of Nurses Estimator A. C. (Pop) Jacobson of

the Phoenix office, a rabid Yankee fan, came home from the World Series with a cantankerous cold, got into a bout with pneumonia, wound up on his back in St. Joseph's Hospital, and before they'd let him go he even underwent some minor surgery.

Just Misses Appointment Mark B. Spaulding, son of Bobby

Spaulding, Phoenix office secretary, finished high in his examination but wound up as first alternate in the list of appointments of U. S. Sen. Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona to the U. S. Military Academy and U. S. Naval Academy. Since it is assumed the young men who received the appointments will enter the service academies. Mark plans to try the next exam for the U. S. Air Force Acadmey.

Progress Story Told Three pages of the September 28

issue of Southwest Builder and Contractor are devoted to a progress story and pictures on the Webb Company's huge Union Oil Center project at the west edge of the Los Angeles downtown district. The article relates details of construction of a 1.500-car. three-level underground garage in the block-square excavation, said to be one of the largest ever dug for an office building.


The 1956 World Series! It was 'The Greatest1

. . . For Some People The Webb Company was well represented at last month's seven-game titanic struggle between the Yankees and the Dodgers, and the fortunate construction folks who were in New York and in possssion of the coveted World Series ducats saw what has been described as probably the most dramatic of all the 53 baseball classics since the Red Sox and Pirates initiated the event in 1903.

Pres. Del E. Webb was on hand as one of the happy Yankee owners, and was accompanied by his construction partner, L. C. Jacobson, Webb Com:

pany executive vice-president and general manager, and Mrs. Jacobson. Also present were Robert A. Becker, Webb Company secretary and Yankees' treasurer, and Mrs. Becker; Amy Jo Hafford, secretary to Mr. Webb and Mr. Jacobson; George Grantham of the accounting department, who assisted Mr. Becker in distribution of Mr. Webb's allotment of Series tickets, and Hal J. Webb, President Webb's brother and personal business representative.

T h r e e other Webb employees "found" themselves in New York on business during the Series. Howard E. Boice, chief of operations at Phoenix, and A. C. Jacobson, Sr., of the Phoenix operations staff, were working on

Ready For Never-To-Be-Forgotten Thrills

AT WORLD SERIES: George Grantham, an accounting department employee at the Webb Company's Phoenix office, always dreamed of being able to see the World Series. His dad, the late George F. Grantham, was a great major leaguer, who saw action in two world classics and was a member of the 1925 World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates. But George was just an infant then. Well, the smiling young man in center of above photo is George, ensconced in a box seat for one of the full seven games he saw at the 1956 World Series. Webb Company officials made it possible for him to lay aside accounting duties and attend the Series while helping Robert A. Becker, Webb Company secretary and Yankees' treasurer, handle distribution of Pres. Del Webb's allotment of Series tickets. Pictured with George at a Yankee Stadium game are Amy Jo Hafford, (right), secretary at Phoenix to Mr. Webb, and, behind them, Mr. and Mrs. Becker—(Official New York Yankee Photo by Bob

Olen). plans and specifications for a shop

ping center, and R. G. Kenson of the

Los Angeles office, assistant to Mr.

Webb, happened into the city on busi-

Big News! The Yanks' Perfect Game FiFI DAILY a NEWS ay 1 ' N I W ' O K ' i l>ICTU«l N I W I M N I * l-lT7ii..li.i I

ZERO HERO! Larsen Drubs Dodgers, 2-0;

1st Perfect Game in 34 Yrs.

PJSSP0S110 HUL OF FAM!

Larseny In The Bronx! \

DON WINS PERFECT GAME No-Hits Dodgers 2 to 0

ness. All were able to see one or more Series clashes.

The Webb Company representatives were thrilled at the Yankees' great comeback after dropping the first two games to the Dodgers, and were unanimous that the perfect game pitched by nonchalant Don Larsen was the brightest spot, though they praised all the Yankee pitching which in the last three games held Brooklyn to one run.

When they weren't watching Series games, or traveling to Yankee Stadium or Ebbets Field, the Webb Company folks found time to see some of the New York sights, visit a few of the famous night spots, and enjoy some top stage shows.

Young Grantham, son of a former major leaguer who played in two World Series when George was an infant, not only saw his first Series but accompanied Mr. Webb on visits to elaborate host headquarters maintained by both Yankees and Dodgers for the press and distinguished guests. There George met Walter O'Malley.

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Perfect Game, Yankees' Comeback Thrilling For Webb Co. Spectators

(Continued from Page 14) president of the Dodgers, and also Tom Sheehan, former major leaguer who had played baseball with his dad. Employees at Phoenix and Los An

geles offices of the Webb Company, following Series progress on television, spotted President Webb on the TV screen at least a couple of times during the classics, and found considerable interest in baseball pools maintained at Phoenix by John Morton and Jim Sena and at Los Angeles by Enola Owens and Dale Griffith. At the Phoenix Series sessions Tom Mulkern, a quiet, unassuming member of the accounting staff, proved quite an expert on major league baseball lore by coming up at the opportune time with facts or figures on past Series or individual performances.

Top money winner in the Phoenix pools was one of the fortunate Webb folks who "sat in" on the Series—L. C. Jacobson. He collected $54. Top single award was $50 won by Kim

Bannister. Other winners included: Gladys Sanders, $33.75; Frank Murray. $32.50; Evelyn Martin, $31.50;

Bill Warriner, $29.25; Rosa Kort, $27; John Meeker, A m y Jo Hafford and Joe Ashton, each $18; Speedy Winston. Pearl Richardson and Paul Marks, each $12; Alice Murdoch,

Back From The Baseball Wars

SUCCESS STORY. How their New York Yankees humbled the Brooklyn Dodgers and won their I 7th World Series is described for sports writers, television and radio men by Vice-Pres. and Co-Owner Del E. Webb and Treasurer Robert A. Becker of the Bombers as they arrived at Phoenix Sky Harbor the morning after the final game. Webb is pictured being interviewed by Johnny Green of Station KPHO-TV, with Sports Editor Bob Allison of the Phoenix Gazette and Sports Writer Ted Kazy of the

Arizona Republic standing by with other questions.

Tom Breen, Tony Kohl and Fred Mc

Dowell, each $9, and Grace Harter, Judy Pooker and John Morton, each

$4.50.

Big winners in the Los Angeles pools were Len Bartecchi and Bill

Foeht of the Union Oil job, who split

$100 on total runs scored. Daily

winners of $10 apiece were Frank

Langell. George Shaw. Dale Griffith.

Ralph Wanless I two in a row), Bob

Johnson and Freda McDonald.

How New York Tabloids Greeted The Yankees' Series Triumph Poor, Poor Bums!

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R. G. Kenson, AssisTant to the President LEGAL AND INVESTMENT DEPARTMENT T. F. Hetherington, Resident Counsel

A. K. Stewart, Jr. Grace Harter



J. W. Colachis Joyce Coffey

H. E. Boice, Chief of Operations F. S. Murray A. C. Jacobson, Sr. T. E. Breen O. F. Childress


W. A. Warriner, Assistant Business Manager H. G. Winston Kara C. Newell P. G. Marks Pearl S. Richardson J. L. Morton T. P. Mulkern J. P. McLain L. O. Hoeft Rosa M. Kort Gladys Sanders Rose Romano J. J. Sena Amy Jo Hafford Lovie Epling G. G. Grantham Judy Pooker

Maybelle Abbott LOS ANGELES OFFICE


E. T. Davies, Chief of Operations D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager E. H. Smith, Jr. Martha Little Enola Owens Gerald Harris Cecil Drinkward R. G. Fleming F. O. Langell Alice Stears C. H. Dean R. G. Wanless M. F. Webb Sallie Tucker

George Shaw Freda McDonald LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE Fifth & Boylston Sts. Los Angeles, Calif., Phone MAdison 6-2211 J. J. Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer C. F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager Milton Hoppe, Job Accountant F. W. Danielson D. J. Kelley, Sr. M. M. DeConinck E. B. York W. R. Foeht Lillian Whitaker Don Gray Mary Somerfeld Luther Smith

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE 3550 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles 5, Calif. Phone DUnkirk 5-3456 M. D. Stevens, Job Superintendent B. Fladhammer, Job Office Manager Ernie Griffith

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA., OFFICE P. O. Box 1864, 4000 Johnson Rd., N.W. Cedar Rapids, la. Phone 4-0139

J. W. Ford, Mgr. of Job Operations T. O. Gilbreath, Job Superintendent L. D Sanders, Job Engineer J. S. Aubin, Job Office Manager R. C. Boatman, Job Accountant R. L. Reeves Don Bogue J. C. Beckley Virginia Haffner Clyde Pendley Flo Core

CULVER CITY, CALIF., OFFICE 11720 Florence Avenue P. O. Box 1157, La Ballona Station Culver City, Calif. Phone TExas 0-1724, EXmont 8-5247 G. A. Murray, Jr., Job Superintendent. R. T. White, Job Office Manager



PHOENIX, ARIZ , OFFICE 2201 North Central Ave. Phoenix, Arizona Phone AL 8-4621 Kim Bannister, Job Operations F. L McDowell, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

PHOENIX, ARIZONA., OFFICE 32nd St. and East Van Buren Phoenix, Arizona. Phone BRidge 5-9361


PHOENIX, ARIZONA., OFFICE 19th Ave. and Thomas Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone AL 8-1166


PHOENIX, ARIZONA., OFFICE 13th Ave. & Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone CRestwood 4-5828

J. W. Meeker, Job Operations W. L. Richards, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

RED BLUFF, CALIF, OFFICE P. O. Box 526 Highway 99W Red Bluff, Calif. Phone 1605

F. P. Kuentz, Mgr of Job Operations Stan Bateman, Job Superintendent M T. Rigg, Job Office Manager G. J. Kennedy, Job Accountant C. T. Powers Wilma Prehn N. A. Hamer


T. G. Austin, Job Office Manager Land Given For Park Residents of the Cedar Hills hous

ing development being constructed by

the Webb Company in Cedar Rapids,

la., are going to have their own park.

A tract of three to five acres situated in the area now being developed has been given to the city by the Cedar Hills Development Co. Municipal officials lauded generosity of the developers. "This is the type of neigh-

Volume 10 November, 1956 No. 11





EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Del E. Webb L. C. Jacobson R.A.Becker W.J.Miller






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DIDN'T GET AWAY. We'd say that's a look ot envy on the map of Jack McPhee, Webb Company job superintendent at San Diego, as he inspects the 32-pound halibut which his wife, Artia, recently hooked and boated off the La Jolla,

Calif., kelp beds.

borhood park we would like to have

all large-area home developers include

in their projects," declared C. M. Man-

ley of the parks committee. The park

will be seeded for grass, and barbecue

pits and picnic tables erected.

Vol. 10, No. 12 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, DECEMBER, 1956 12 Pages

Newest Developments In San Diego Housing Busy Webb Co. Crews Newest phase in the $35,000,000 Clairemont Estates development in suburban San Diego, Calif., saw the Del E. Webb Construction Co. begin construction of model homes last month in Clairemont Park, and acquire land for still another unit of

400 to 1,000 homes to be started in the spring and to be known as East Clairemont.

Clairemont Park is a Webb Company project in which homes are to be built on land obtained from the Clairemont Company by Merrill Supply Co., a subsidiary of the construction firm.

The new homes will be similar to the hundreds recently completed and al-


NEWEST of the housing completed by the Webb Company in the huge Clairemont Estates development in suburban San Diego, Calif., is shown in this aerial view. Known as Clairemont Unit 17A, it consists of 161 homes started Feb. 22 and completed ahead of schedule in October — latest in a multi-million dollar housing program. All now are occupied by new residents of the mushrooming area.

INSPECTING PROGRESS on the $20,000,000 Union Oil Center project in Los Angeles, two Webb Company officials from the Phoenix office are pictured with Job Supt. Neil Drinkward, (right). They are L. C. Jacobson (left), executive vice-president and general manager, and J. R. Ashton, vi>- --—;jl»r* ?"^ Pfcpowix di&rirt manager. Behind them rises the steel

First HiwayHouse Nears Completion (Pictures on Page 2)

Construction of the Phoenix HiwayHouse. newest in the chain of motor

hotels being spaced across the Pacific-Southwest by the Webb Company, was

being rushed late last month by crews striving for a mid-December comple

tion date.

First guests are slated to hang their

hats in the new 250-room hostelry. largest and most spacious motor hotel

in the Southwest, before the Christmas

holidays.

HiwayHouse is the first of a multi-

million dollar chain of motor hotels

under that name which the Webb

Company is to build across much of the nation for officials of the Flamingo

Hotels Corporation.

The new Phoenix hotel at 32nd and

Van Buren Streets will boast a 500 x


Spaciousness Will Be One Of Attractions At HiwayHouse Hotel

PART OF HUGE PATIO to be enclosed by one-story and two-story wings of the new Phoenix HiwayHouse Hotel being rushed to completion by Webb Company crews when these pictures were made in mid-November is shown in view above, taken from dining room section of the administration building. Swimming pool is under construction in foreground.

COLORED STONES, native to Arizona, are effectively ANOTHER PORTION of spacious patio of HiwayHouse, used in attractive stairwells on patio side of six two- largest motor hotel in Southwest, is shown above. story wings which are incorporated in 250-room Seven acres will be grassed and landscaped. hostelry.

ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, set well back from busy intersection ot 32nd and Van Buren Street (U. S. Highway 60-70-80-89), will house lobby, registration desk, offices, dining room, coffee shop, kitchen, cocktail lounge, banquet hall and storage rooms.


Mtuon, Oil Gentek FROM OPPOSITE END of job, the gigantic steel framework rising for the height-limit Home Office Building for Union Oil Company in Los Angeles looks almost like a toy created by a youngster's erector set. But that's because the mushrooming steel superstructure is more than an average city block distant from point at which this picture was taken. And the steel framework still hadn't reached half its maximum height when this photo was madeAarly last month.

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Pltoe+ux, Hawaii VIEWED FROM BENEATH an arbor at next-door Heard Museum, the Phoenix Towers apartments structure had been pushed upward nine stories by mid-November, but still was due to add another one-third to its height to become one of the tallest structures in Arizona's capital city. The $2,500,000, 14-story building located on fashionable North Central Avenue will, when completed in 1957, house 60 families in ultra-modern apartments.

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sador Hotel.


TVeatfoi /tt^ecCBCu^ With winter imminent and the

rainy season ahead, Webb Com

pany workmen erecting the mul

ti-million dollar forest products

plant for Diamond Match Com

pany at Red Bluff, Calif., last

month were pushing the roofing

operation on the big molded pulp

building to get it under cover.

Scenes on this page show differ

ent phases of the work.

AIR VIEW of molded pulp building, taken Nov. 2, shows roof sheathing being applied (at left) on finished goods storage department, with steel in place (center of photo) and rooting to follow on egg carton manufacture and picnic plate tood-tainer manufacturing departments. Farther along in structure, roofing is underway over the tile stock chests. Though it is only part of the new Diamond Match plant, molded pulp building will contain almost 300,000 square feet in its first floor and basement.

UNUSUAL VIEW of tile stock chest is molded pulp building from pulp raw storage department, looking through stainless steel insert in front of stock chest.

COLUMNS FORMED from basement to main floor in molded pulp building. Shoring for structural slab can be seen in background.

INTERESTING PATTERN of wood and steel is formed by tapered steel trusses and frame purlins, ready for wood roof sheathing, above finished goods storage area.

CRANE SPEEDILY LIFTS lumber to roof for sheathing at Diamond Match project.

FOUNDATION WALLS and piers take shape for log sorter and bundler and log-unloader crane structure. Here a 50-ton capacity crane will unload logs from rail cars and trucks.

December, 1 956 THE WEBB SPINNER

Key Personnel Pictured On Forest Products Plant Project

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THIS CREW, pictured beside the job office, is directing office and field activities in construction of the huge Diamond Match Company forest products plant in Northern California. The group includes (left to right, back row) Ivan Goodwin, tilt-up foreman; William Moriariaty, mason foreman; J. T. Borron, hod carrier foreman; Steve Karr, Roy Bateman and G. W. MacMillan, labor foremen; Andy Paulson, railroad foreman; Gene Hodson, field engineef; Stan Bateman, job superintendent; Joe Morgan, carpenter foreman; Jeffrey Barrett, soil engineer; C. T. Robertson, field engineer; Bob Burns, warehouseman; Jack Kirch, reinforcing steel foreman; Milford Rigg, job office manager; Wilma Prehn, secretary; Neville Hamer, receptionist; Harrison Lewin, time checker; Karl Hattenhauer, office engineer; Gene Kennedy, job accountant; Don Duval, timekeeper; (left to right, front row) Paul Beck, rigging foreman; Frank Zendrie, caisson foreman; Jack Childers, carpenter foreman; L. M. McElwain, cement finisher foreman; Cliff Lindenauer and Don Cosman, carpenter foremen; Paul Menefee, grade foreman; Ronnie Varney, field engineer; Clarence Goody and J. D. Houston, field engineers; Paul Brooks, resident engineer for Southwestern Engineering, and Fred Kuentz, Webb Company manager of job operations.

THIS TRIO has no trouble keeping busy on the Red Bluff project. From left, Chuck Powers, office engineer and project photographer; Stan Bateman, Webb Company job superintendent, and Phil McKenna, secretary, labor union.

DIAMOND MATCH representatives on the forest products plant project include this quartet, from left: R. T. Koontz, accountant; Joyce Winter, secretary; W. Wslim, purchasing agent, and G. Britt, resident engineer.

Ex-Footballer McDowell Honored Fred McDowell, veteran Webb

Company job superintendent who

now is supervising construction of the

Phoenix Towers apartments, was honored on Saturday night, Oct. 27, when Arizona State's Sun Devils walloped the San Jose State College Spartans

from California in Goodwin Stadium

at Tempe. Fred was one of the members of the 1931 Tempe college conference championship football team on hand for a 25th reunion celebration. Best known as the first Arizona State team to beat the University of Arizona since 1899 (19-7 that year: 20-0 this year), the 1931 eleven was

coached by Ted Shipkey. an A11-

American at Stanford in 1926. and the club also was the first to bring a Border Conference championship to the Tempe campus. McDowell was a rugged tackle with Mesa High School before being graduated in 1926. then saw action four years on Tempe College elevens.


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Policy-Making Group Studies Webb Company Future At Management Meeting

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THEY LOOK AHEAD. A busy and promising 1957 for the Webb Company on the construction "front" has been predicted by members ot group pictured above. They were in Phoenix last month tor semi-annual company management conference to discuss personnel problems, new business, investments, field operations in recent months, and progress on millions of dollars in Webb Company construction currently underway in widely-separated parts of the nation. From left, seated, are R. H. Johnson, vice-president and Los Angeles manager; Pres. Del E. Webb; L. C. Jacobson, executive vice-president and general manager; from left, standing: E. T. Davies, chief ot operations, Los Angeles; W. A. Warriner, assistant business manager at the Phoenix office; H. E. Boice, chief of operations, Phoenix; D. E. Griffith, assistant business manager at Los Angeles office; W. J. Miller, assistant to the general manager; H. G. Winston, chief accountant; J. R. Ashton, vice-president and Phoenix district manager, and T. F. Hetherington, head of the company legal and investment department. R. A. Becker, secretary-treasurer, who attended parley, was not present when photo was made.

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After successfully recuperating from

serious surgery only last December, Mrs. Caroline W. McGee, mother of Secretary Martha Little of the Los Angeles office, became ill in early September and passed away Oct. 6 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank, Calif. Since January she had been making her home in California with Martha and her husband, Howard.

Funeral services were conducted Oct. 11 and burial was in Mrs. Mc-Gee's home town of Marion, Ohio. Because of an airways error in sending the remains on the wrong flight, the funeral, originally set Oct. 10, had to be postponed a day, causing considerable confusion and anxiety for the family. Martha, being an only child

and having lost her father when she was 20, was unusually close to her mother and her death has been a great loss. Condolences are extended by her many friends in the Webb Company.

FIVE YEARS AGO, in November of 1951, this was the group which attended the fall management conference. Pictured, from left: H. E. Boice, Tom Lambie, then secretary to R. A. Becker; J. R. Ashton, E. T. Davies, Del E. Webb, L. C. Jacobson, R. H. Johnson, Mr. Becker, and W. J. Miller.

Webb-Built Plant Is Busy Production of the famed Falcon

guided missile at the Howard Hughes plant built in Tucson, Ariz., by the Webb Company will double by the end

of 1957, Roy W. Wendahl. plant manager, predicted at a recent meeting of

the Hughes Tucson Management Club. He said employment in the big plant probably will reach 6,000 persons.

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±.t is hard to believe another Christmas is almost upon us, and that a

busy 1956 is almost over. Nevertheless, it is true, and as every one in

our organization realizes, it soon will be 1957, with new challenges ahead for all of us.

But, looking back on our accomplishments of 1956 and those of

the earlier years when our operations were achieving nationwide size and scope, we know that none of the challenges are insurmountable if we have real faith in ourselves.

Most of the year we are so busy we sometimes forget how often

and how much we rely upon the integrity of our fellow workers and our fellow men. lt is well that we are reminded of this at least once a year by the Yuletide custom of expressing our good faith in one

another, and 1 sincerely appreciate the privilege of extending sincere Christmas greetings to our personnel, our subcontractors, our clients,

and to our many friends who are readers of The Webb Spinner. Every day—not just at Christmas—the greatest gift any employ

er can give his employees, and any businessman can give his clients, is his good faith. And, in return, they give him their confidence and

good will. No business activity, large or small, can be successful without demonstrating good faith in every transaction. The principles of

quality work and fair dealing have governed each step of our Company's progress, and will govern it in the future.

This coming year should produce a more competitive market in the construction industry, and that will be good for business because it ivill bring out the best that is in this facet of the American economy. It will stimulate the American spirit of free competition, produce bet

ter values for our clients, and develop stronger muscles for every

business enterprise. On the threshhold of this new holiday season, it looks again like

the new year is always the best year of all—a year of promise and opportunity. 1 extend to all hearty wishes for a Merry Christmas, and the

hope that 1957 may be the best year yet.

2>e/e. WeU.

Planning Complete For Newest Housing Units At San Diego


ready occupied in Clairemont Estates. Only five years ago the Clairemant

area was a barren mesa overlooking

the blue Pacific, but today it is a thriving "village within a city" with a pop

ulation of 35,000 persons, its own schools and shopping centers, attrac

tively landscaped homes, modern

paved streets and walks, and quick ac

cess to busy San Diego. The East Clairemont project, to be

started with model homes about Feb. 1, will feature houses of a new design

being developed by the Webb Company. These will be three-bedroom and four-bedroom homes with modern

features, according to R. C. Hinton,

Webb Company manager of job op

erations. Besides roads and streets, construc

tion of two miles of trunk sewer will be necessary to create the East Clairemont area, where land planning and procurement is by the La Jolla, Calif., firm of Burgener & Tavares, with all

house planning and construction the task of the Webb Company.

Other companies furnishing ser

vices include: Freeland, Peterson and Evenson, civil engineers, who are preparing the tract maps and improvement plans; Trojan Home Design,

house plans; Stalford Mortgage Co., financing; Clair Burgener Co., sales,

and Union Title Insurance and Trust Co., title work and trustee.

Construction is in charge of J. N. (Jack) McPhee, Webb Company job superintendent who has handled a

number of large housing developments from the Midwest to California. The

construction program is being direct

ed by R. H. Johnson, vice-president in

charge of the Webb Company's Los

Year's end, and the beginning of a

new year, are busy times, but there's

always time for a salute from The Webb Spinner to these fine Webb Company folks who will be observ

ing birthday anniversaries during

December and January:

Cliff Dean, Los Angeles Dec. 2

Dale Griffith, Los Angeles Dec. 3 Ralph Wanless, Los Angeles ..Dec. 17 Milton Hoppe, Los Angeles ....Dec. 21 Mary Somerfield, Los Angeles Dec. 22 Alice Stears, Los Angeles Dec. 28 Tom Breen, Phoenix Jan. 3 Ed Davies, Los Angeles Jan. 5 Tom Mulkern, Phoenix Jan. 6 A. J. Hafford, Phoenix Jan. 9 M. D. Stevens, Los Angeles ...Jan. 11 R. G. Fleming, Miami, Fla Jan. 14 John Morton, Phoenix Jan. 18 R. G. Kenson, Los Angeles Jan. 26 R. C. Hinton, Los Angeles Jan. 27 Fritz Danielson, L. A. Jan. 28

Japs Rough On Bums Brooklyn's National League cham

pion Dodgers came home from their post-World Series exhibition tour of Japan with 14 wins, four losses and one tie. Brooklyn played before 435,-000 fans in 19 appearances. By contrast, the Yankees a season previously won 15, tied one, and drew crowds totaling 463,000.

No Trick-A Real Treat Miss Joan Becker, daughter of Ro

bert A. Becker, Webb Company secretary-treasurer, had quite an experience on Hallowe'en night. A student

at Mount St. Mary's College in West-wood Village, a Los Angeles suburb. she and two Phoenix classmates, Ann

Riordan and Janet Lewis, were on a "trick-or-treat" junket when she

chanced upon the home of Richard Egan, 20th Century's answer to

America's coeds. The actor and his

parents invited them in, entertained them royally during the evening, and even showed preview shots from his

new picture, "Love M e Tender."

Angeles office, and his chief of opera

tions, E. T. Davies, with Mr. Hinton

serving as manager of job operations.

P. D. Clouthier as job office manager.

and C. J. Daniel as timekeeper.

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Tea years Ago ....

1CM R ^ Was ^ Year For Reconversion, And J T U Nationwide Expansion Of Building Work

The shouting over VJ Day had hardly died away, and everyone talked of the vital necessity of immediate reconversion.

The Webb Company, its fine record of wartime construction recorded for posterity, had turned to a program of nationwide expansion which had been mapped almost a decade previously and then delayed by the necessity of war work.

And after a single year of peacetime operation, a year fraught with

obstacles of materials shortages and unforseen government restrictions, the Webb Company was operating in seventeen states and the District of Columbia.

Across the lap of the nation from Los Angeles to Phoenix to Houston, New Orleans and Tampa, Fla., along the north from Washington, D.C, to Toledo, 0., and Portland, Ore.; through the heart of the country from Reno to Wichita to Amarillo to Little Rock and Kansas City, the red and black insignae of the Del E. Webb Construction Co. was becoming a familiar sight at construction scenes.

And from ocean to ocean, from border to border, the company was

winning a reputation as a concern

whcih "gets things done."

The company had made extensive pre-war plans for extending opera

tions on a nationwide basis, but a tremendous volume of war work in the Southwestern United States and the Pacific Coast areas demanded full attention. Yet, in closing stages of the

war and immediately thereafter, Mr. Webb and Mr. Jacobson could see that secondary only to immediate requirements of war work was the urgent necessity of post-war reconversion planning.

"In spite of the fact that we did not accomplish as much in this direction as we desired," Mr. Webb said at that time, "the results have been astounding. When we went into 1946 we were

literally swamped with contracts for industrial and commercial buildings as well as housing, which we had discussed and planned during the war.

"Because of the critical materials and labor situations it was impossible to efficiently execute all of the contracts offered us. Therefore, we tried to select and undertake only those contracts which, in our opinion, would be

WHAT A WELCOMEl Having whipped a siege of pneumonia and

" rested up after a painful operation, Estimator A. C. (Pop) Jacob-son came back to the Phoenix office shortly before Thanksgiving to find his desk piled high with news and sports papers, construction magazines and other periodicals he regularly checks for items of interest to management. Pop looked a bit crestfallen as he surveyed the stack in photo above, but declared he'd be "out of the trenches" before Christmas.

of the greatest value in speedy reconversion of the nation."

And what of this speedy reconver

sion?

"Our plans had been well mapped,"

Mr. Jacobson said at that time, "and yet once the war ended some speedy steps were necessary to keep apace of our swift reconversion program.

"The work today (1946) includes food processing plants, food storage and refrigeration warehouses, hotels, office buildings and warehouses, construction activity in the classifications the recently-inaugurated Civilian Production Administration has certified not only as essential but as non-deferable," Mr. Jacobson was quoted 10 years ago.

Construction of veterans housing in Arizona had been accorded top priority by the Webb Company, and projects finished or nearing completion at the close of 1946 provided accommodations for 726 veterans families and 178 individual ex-service men. For many of these, the new housing meant not only a roof over their heads, but the opportunity to pursue

education which had been interrupted by war service.

"We point with pride," said Mr. Jacobson at that time, "to our statewide Federal Public Housing Administration-fostered housing program in Arizona, already heralded as one of the greatest single contributions to

solving of the veterans' housing difficulties in the state."

Shopping Center Featured Three pages in the September issue

of the Correlator, monthly publica

tion of the National Association of

Home Builders of the United States,

were devoted to a story and photos of

the Webb Company's Uptown Plaza Shopping Center at Phoenix, which

previously had received the N A H B

Award of Merit for neighborhood development. Architect on the project

was H. H. Green of Phoenix, and land planner was Roy P. Drachman of Tucson.

December, 1 956 THE WEBB SPINNER Page 1 1

Speedy Action By Two Webb Men Helps Save Fellow Worker's Life

Herbert Tolson, 36-year-old Webb

Company truck driver, probably owes

his life today to the quick thinking and quick action of two fellow workers, J. A. McCarty and Tony Kohl.

Tolson was helping move a small sales office at the Camelback Village

housing project in Northwest Phoenix and was on the roof when he contacted an insulated 220-volt electric line. He yelled for help before he was knocked unconscious. McCarty, on the ground beside the building, grabbed a timber and knocked the wire from Tolson's hands. At the same moment Job Office

Manager Kohl, standing near the

telephone in the nearby job office at the time he heard Tolson scream, was dialing for a fire department resusci-

tator squad and an ambulance. "I knew what had happened when I

heard Tolson yell," Tony said later.

Firemen came from a station only a few blocks distant and were on the job within minutes. They revived Tolson on the roof, lowered him to the ground and he was rushed by ambulance to the hospital for an examination. Moved to his home that same day, the truck driver was back at work within three days. Investigating pow

er company officials were unable to explain how Tolson suffered the shock from the insulated wire.

Webb Company Bowlers Roll Into Action Again Webb Company keglers from the

Phoenix office, out of competition for

several years, swung into action again last month in the Construction Bowling League at the new Thunderbird

Lanes, and came up with a 3-1 win

over Heflin Steel. Johnny Morton rolled a 459 series

and Johnny Meeker had a 174 high single game. Owen Childress, Jim

Sena and Dave Kauffman made up the

rest of the team. But the second week, with Bill War

riner substituting for Childress, who

was ill, the Webb crew took a four-point shellacking from Rheem Water

Softener. Warriner did a creditable job in his first pin-toppling in eight

years.

WEDDING BELLS SOON. Gladys Sanders, Phoenix office accounting department employe, (at left, closest to camera), announced her engagement at a luncheon attended by a small group of fellow workers at Macayo's restaurant last month. She plans to wed Eugene E. Gage ot Mesa, Ariz., in Las Vegas, Nev., Jan. 19, after which they will honeymoon a week in Los Angeles and San Diego. A former New Yorker who came to Arizona three years ago, Gage is a civilian employe at Williams Air Force Base, where he serves as a quality control inspector of jet planes. Luncheon guests pictured with Gladys are (counter-clockwise, from left) Jackie Spandau, Judy Pooker, Maybelle Abbott, Johnny Meeker, Rosa Kort, Tom Rittenhouse, Alice Murdoch and Evelyn Martin.

NEWLYWEDS. Anne Leona Ashton, daughter of Vice-Pres. J. R. Ashton, Phoenix district manager for the Webb Company, and Floyd E. Martin, son ot Mrs. J. G. Martin of Phoenix, were married Nov. 3 in an informal ceremony before relatives and close friends at the Ashton home. Anne attended Arizona State College at Flagstaff last year and has been active in the Junior Horse Lovers group, having won a number of trophies for her riding ability. The bridegroom is an employe ot Fisher Contracting Co., Superior Sand and Gravel division. The young couple plans to reside on the West Coast.

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DEL E.WEBB

CONSTRUCTION

Del E. Webb, President L, C. Jacobson, Executive Vice President and General Manager


R. G. Kenson, Assistant to the President IEGAL AND INVESTMENT DEPARTMENT

T. F. Hetherington, Resident Counsel A. K. Stewart, Jr.

Grace Harter PHOENIX OFFICE


J. W. Colachis Joyce Coffey

E. Boice, Chief of Operations S. Murray

A. C. Jacobson, Sr T. E. Breen O. F. Childress Billie Thomason


W. A. Warriner, Assistant Business Manager KaraC. Newell Pearl S, Richardson T. P. Mulkern L. O. Hoeft Gladys Sanders Lovie Epling Judy Pooker Rita Herrmann

H. G. Winston P. G. Marks J. L. Morton J. P. McLain Rosa M. Kort Rose Romano Amv Jo Hafford G. G. Grantham Mary Jane Spandau


R. H. Johnson, Vice President and District Manager E. T. Davies, Chief of Operations D. E. Griffith, Assistant Business Manager E. H. Smith, Jr. Martha Little Enola Owens Gerald Harris Cecil Drinkward R. G. Fleming F. O. Langell Alice Stears C. H. Dean R. G. Wanless M.F.Webb Sallie Tucker

George Shaw Freda McDonald PHOENIX, ARIZ , OFFICE

2201 North Central Ave. Phoenix, Arizona Phone AL 8-4621 Kim Bannister, Job Operations F. L McDowell, Job Superintendent J. Benson

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE Fifth & Boylston Sts. Los Angeles, Calif., Phone MAdison 6-2211 J. J, Fahey, Mgr. of Job Operations C. D. Drinkward, Job Superintendent Apollo Guizot, Job Engineer C. F. Kintzi, Job Office Manager Milton Hoppe, Job Accountant F. W. Danielson D. J. Kelley, Sr. M. M. DeConinck E. B. York W. R. Foeht Lillian Whitaker Don Gray Mary Somerfeld Luther Smith

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., OFFICE 3550 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles 5, Calif. Phone DUnkirk 5-3456 M. D. Stevens, Job Superintendent B. Fladhammer, Job Office Manager Ernie Griffith

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA., OFFICE P. O. Box 1864, 4000 Johnson Rd., N.W. Cedar Rapids, la. Phone 4-0139 J. W, Ford, Mgr. of Job Operations T. O. Gilbreath, Job Superintendent L. D Sanders, Job Engineer J. S. Aubin, Job Office Manager R. C. Boatman, Job Accountant J. C. Beckley Don Bogue Clyde Pendley Virginia Haffner

Flo Core CULVER CITY, CALIF., OFFICE

11720 Florence Avenue P. O. Box 1157, La Ballona Station Culver City, Calif. Phone TExas 0-1724, EXmont 8-5247 G. A. Murray, Jr., Job Superintendent, R. T. White, Job Office Manager

SAN DIEGO, CALIF , OFFICE 4330 Moraga St. P. O. Box 9396 San Diego 9, Calif. Phone BRoadway 3 6234

R. C. Hinton, Job Operations J. N, McPhee, Job Superintendent P. D. Clouthier, Job Office Manager C. J. Daniel

PHOENIX, ARIZONA., OFFICE 32nd St. and East Van Buren Phoenix, Arizona, Phone BRidge 5-9361

E. W. Flint, Job Operations W. E. Pritchett, Job Superintendent D. L. Kauffman, Job Office Manager J. J. Sena

PHOENIX, ARIZONA., OFFICE 19th Ave. and Thomas Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone AL 8-1166 J. W. Meeker, Job Operations C. L. Edwards, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager J. P. Hayden

PHOENIX, ARIZONA., OFFICE 13th Ave. & Camelback Rd. Phoenix, Arizona Phone CRestwood 4-5828 J, W. Meeker, Job Operations W. L, Richards, Job Superintendent T. P. Kohl, Job Office Manager

RED BLUFF, CALIF, OFFICE P. O. Box 526 Highway 99W Red Bluff, Calif. Phone 1605 F. P. Kuentz, Mgr of Job Operations Stan Bateman, Job Superintendent M T. Rigg, Job Office Manager G. J. Kennedy, Job Accountant C. T. Powers Wilma Prehn N. A. Hamer

Daughter For Senas The "cradle brigade" enrolled

another member from the Webb Com

pany last month. She is Tracy Ann

Sena, who weighed seven pounds, sev

en ounces when she made her bow

Nov. 1 at Good Samaritan Hospital. She is the first-born and new daughter

of Joan and Jim Sena. He's timekeeper on the Phoenix HiwayHouse Motor

hotel project.

Volume 10 December, 1956 No. 12

Published by the DEI E. WEBB CONSTRUCTION CO.




EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Del E. Webb R. A. Becker

L. C. Jacobson W. J. Miller

Amy Jo Hafford

EDITOR Jerry McLain



Dale Griffith, Los Angeles CIRCULATION MANAGER

Kara Caroline (Casey) Newell Member ^. »

"QHii2iIr> Society of Associated tfSTg^l Industrial Editors I I C I E l

and * u .'U-JI ''


BEAUTY IN INDUSTRY. Jacolyn Breen of Phoenix, pretty wife ot Tom Breen of the Webb Company's housing department, recently was named Miss Phoenix Industry during a salute to Arizona capital city industries. She was feted at a meeting of chamber of commerce members at which manufacturers and industrialists were honored. Mayor Jack Williams told the group the present and future of Phoenix is geared to manufacturing and the electronics industry, and that hand in hand with that growth will go agricultural and tourist incomes which already have made such a significant contribution to Phoenix area development.—(Phoenix Chamber of Commerce Photo.) 7

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